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Arizona · Pronghorn · Hunt 2054

Arizona pronghorn hunt 2054

17B and 19B. What each bonus point level actually did in Arizona's midwinter draw — how many applications sat at that level, and how many of them drew a tag. Every figure comes from an Arizona Game and Fish report linked at the foot of this page.

What the 2026 draw did

Arizona authorized 5 hunt permit-tags on hunt 2054 in 2026, of which at most 1 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 279 applications named it, and 5 drew it through the first two passes. The hunt filled.

Arizona grants no guarantee for holding points. Before each pass the department generates one random number for your application plus one more for every bonus point on it, and uses the lowest. Only the bonus pass — 20 per cent of the permits above, and closed to anyone holding no points — goes out in point order. So the table below is a record of what happened at each level, not a ladder you climb.

The highest bonus point level with an application on this hunt in 2026 was 25.

By bonus point level

Cycle
Residency
The draw rate is permits drawn divided by applications at that level — a share of the people there, not a share of a quota. Arizona publishes no permits-available figure per point level. "Bonus pass" is the subset of the drawn column issued in the 20 per cent first pass; it is already included, and adding the two together counts those permits twice. Applications are first and second choice only.
CyclePoints1st choice2nd choiceApplicationsDrawnof which bonus passDraw rate
2026 midwinter081220000.00%
2026 midwinter111920000.00%
2026 midwinter212719000.00%
2026 midwinter361319000.00%
2026 midwinter46814000.00%
2026 midwinter5347000.00%
2026 midwinter69716000.00%
2026 midwinter79817000.00%
2026 midwinter811718000.00%
2026 midwinter96511000.00%
2026 midwinter108513000.00%
2026 midwinter11549000.00%
2026 midwinter1211314000.00%
2026 midwinter1316622000.00%
2026 midwinter14415000.00%
2026 midwinter156410000.00%
2026 midwinter16516000.00%
2026 midwinter17448000.00%
2026 midwinter185381012.50%
2026 midwinter195162033.33%
2026 midwinter20268000.00%
2026 midwinter211451020.00%
2026 midwinter233031133.33%
2026 midwinter25011000.00%
2025 midwinter051217000.00%
2025 midwinter112921000.00%
2025 midwinter291322000.00%
2025 midwinter3161632000.00%
2025 midwinter4111021000.00%
2025 midwinter57815000.00%
2025 midwinter691120000.00%
2025 midwinter711516000.00%
2025 midwinter851520000.00%
2025 midwinter97310000.00%
2025 midwinter109716000.00%
2025 midwinter1114721209.52%
2025 midwinter1212618000.00%
2025 midwinter136511000.00%
2025 midwinter146511109.09%
2025 midwinter15336000.00%
2025 midwinter164610000.00%
2025 midwinter17549000.00%
2025 midwinter18527000.00%
2025 midwinter19167000.00%
2025 midwinter20336000.00%
2025 midwinter22314000.00%
2025 midwinter231121050.00%
2025 midwinter24011000.00%
2025 midwinter2910111100.00%

A dash in the rate column means nobody applied at that level in that pool, which is absent rather than nought — the draw answered nothing there.

The hunt, cycle by cycle

Season, unit and permit count as the regulations booklet for that cycle prints them. The nonresident figure is a cap, not a share — it is the most that may go to nonresidents, and it does not add to a resident number.
CycleSeasonOpen areasLegal wildlifeAuthorizedNR capIssued
2026 midwinterAug 21 - Sep 3, 202617B and 19BBuck pronghorn515
2025 midwinterAug 22 - Sep 4, 202517B and 19BBuck pronghorn515

How to read these numbers

The applications column is not the whole field. Arizona draws in three passes and the bonus point report covers the first two — the bonus pass and the first-and-second-choice pass. Hunters who named this hunt as a third, fourth or fifth choice are drawn in a pass the department publishes no point-level breakdown for, so they are not counted above and no total here should be read as everyone who wanted the tag.

A bonus point level is a property of the application, not of a person.Two to four hunters may apply on one application, and Arizona averages their points and rounds to the nearest whole number. So a row at level 6 can hold a group whose members individually hold anything from 4 to 8.

Comparing a rate here with one from another state will mislead you.Utah's and Idaho's rates are permits against a published quota. Arizona's are permits against the applicants at one point level, because that is the only denominator the department gives.

Every source read for this page

  • 2026 M Bonus Point Report — 2026-M-Bonus-Point-Report.pdf, fetched 2026-09-04
  • 2025 M Bonus Point Report — 2025-Bonus-Point-Report.pdf, fetched 2026-09-04
  • 2026-Pronghorn-and-Elk-Regulations_251223.pdf — the regulations booklet this cycle's species, unit and permit count were read from
  • 2025-Pronghorn-and-Elk-Regulations_250106.pdf — the regulations booklet this cycle's species, unit and permit count were read from

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