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Arizona pronghorn hunt 2061

35A (excluding Fort Huachuca) and 35B. 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 3 hunt permit-tags on hunt 2061 in 2026, of which at most 1 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 175 applications named it, and 3 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 23.

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 midwinter061117000.00%
2026 midwinter171017000.00%
2026 midwinter211819000.00%
2026 midwinter38917000.00%
2026 midwinter4189000.00%
2026 midwinter52911000.00%
2026 midwinter66511109.09%
2026 midwinter74812000.00%
2026 midwinter86410000.00%
2026 midwinter9347000.00%
2026 midwinter106281012.50%
2026 midwinter11549000.00%
2026 midwinter12033000.00%
2026 midwinter13257000.00%
2026 midwinter14112000.00%
2026 midwinter15325000.00%
2026 midwinter16314000.00%
2026 midwinter17011000.00%
2026 midwinter18033000.00%
2026 midwinter192021150.00%
2026 midwinter23101000.00%
2025 midwinter0121931000.00%
2025 midwinter1101424000.00%
2025 midwinter28513000.00%
2025 midwinter34913000.00%
2025 midwinter4268000.00%
2025 midwinter55813000.00%
2025 midwinter646101010.00%
2025 midwinter77512000.00%
2025 midwinter83581012.50%
2025 midwinter9437000.00%
2025 midwinter10437000.00%
2025 midwinter11044000.00%
2025 midwinter12426000.00%
2025 midwinter13314000.00%
2025 midwinter14246000.00%
2025 midwinter15336000.00%
2025 midwinter16213000.00%
2025 midwinter17246000.00%
2025 midwinter18011000.00%
2025 midwinter20011000.00%
2025 midwinter220221150.00%
2025 midwinter24011000.00%

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, 202635A (excluding Fort Huachuca) and 35BBuck pronghorn313
2025 midwinterAug 22 - Sep 4, 202535A (excluding Fort Huachuca) and 35BBuck pronghorn313

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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