Arizona Deer Draw Odds
In the 2026 draw Arizona offered 218 deer hunts to nonresidents, split between a top-points pass and a weighted random draw. At 0 points a nonresident had at least an even chance in 43 hunts open to every hunter.
Closes Jun 2, 2027 (expected)
Kept if you miss. Deer license $300 only if drawn
2026 draw · nonresidents capped at 10%
2026 draw, first choice
Point only: $15 nonresident · on the draw application · apply by Jun 2, 2027 (expected) → Buying Points in Arizona
How the Arizona Draw Works (30-Second Version)
Split: points + random.
20% of the tags go to the applicants with the most points; the other 80% are drawn at random with points + 1 entries per applicant, so points still help but never guarantee a tag.
Best Bets at 0 Points
Odds × hunter success × public land, 10 tags or more. Private-land, ranch, landowner and youth hunts left out.
Buck or Either-Sex
1009
Unit 7 · Antlered rifle · General deer · Any antlered deer · 7 and 9
- Success
- —
- Public
- 80%
- Season
- Oct 30–Nov 8
1124
Unit 34A · Antlered rifle · General deer · Antlered whitetail deer · 34A
- Success
- —
- Public
- 60%
- Season
- Oct 23–29
1144
Unit 36B · Antlered rifle · General deer · Antlered whitetail deer · 36B
- Success
- —
- Public
- 84%
- Season
- Oct 23–29
1031
Unit 20A · Antlered rifle · General deer · Any antlered deer · 20A
- Success
- —
- Public
- 82%
- Season
- Oct 23–Nov 1
1069
Unit 40A · Antlered rifle · General deer · Any antlered deer · Parks), 40A, and 40B (Special Restrictions 41 (Special Restrictions
- Success
- —
- Public
- 97%
- Season
- Nov 6–15
1028
Unit 19A · Antlered rifle · General deer · Any antlered deer · 19A
- Success
- —
- Public
- 69%
- Season
- Oct 23–Nov 1
Every Hunt at 0 Points
218 hunt codes drawn in 2026 · 50 at 50% or better · first choice · nonresident
Last year's odds were off by about 13 percentage points for applicants near the points needed. How we check
| Hunt | Season | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1001 Unit 1 · Antlered rifle · General deer · Any antlered deer | Antlered rifle · General deer · Any antlered deer | 1 | Oct 23–Nov 1 | 4% | 7▲1 | 40 / 86 | — |
| 1199New 2026 Unit 1 · Antlered archery · Archery-only hunt permit-tag required deer · Any antlered deer | Antlered archery · Archery-only hunt permit-tag required deer · Any antlered deer | 1 | Aug 21–Sep 10 | 30% | 5 | 16 / 14 | — |
| 1002 Unit 2A +2 · Antlered rifle · General deer · Any antlered deer · 2A, 2B, and 2C | Antlered rifle · General deer · Any antlered deer · 2A, 2B, and 2C | 2A +2 | Oct 23–Nov 1 | 5% (small sample) | 7▼1 | 4 / 13 | — |
| 1003 Unit 3A +1 · Antlered rifle · General deer · Any antlered deer · 3A and 3C | Antlered rifle · General deer · Any antlered deer · 3A and 3C | 3A +1 | Oct 23–Nov 1 | <1% | 20▲1 | 6 / 153 | — |
| 1004 Unit 3A +1 · Antlered rifle · General deer · Any antlered deer · Know the Seasons · Deer 3A and 3C | Antlered rifle · General deer · Any antlered deer · Know the Seasons · Deer 3A and 3C | 3A +1 | Dec 11–31 | 0% (small sample) | — | 1 / 305 | — |
| 1200New 2026 Unit 3A +1 · Antlered archery · Archery-only hunt permit-tag required deer · Any antlered deer · 3A and 3C | Antlered archery · Archery-only hunt permit-tag required deer · Any antlered deer · 3A and 3C | 3A +1 | Aug 21–Sep 10 | <1% (small sample) | 21 | 2 / 53 | — |
| 1182New 2026 Unit 3B · Antlered muzzleloader · Muzzleloader deer · Any antlered deer · 3B | Antlered muzzleloader · Muzzleloader deer · Any antlered deer · 3B | 3B | Oct 23–Nov 1 | 19% | — | 10 / 3 | — |
| 1183New 2026 Unit 3B · Antlered muzzleloader · Muzzleloader deer · Any antlered deer · 3B | Antlered muzzleloader · Muzzleloader deer · Any antlered deer · 3B | 3B | Dec 11–31 | 1% (small sample) | — | 1 / 11 | — |
| 1005 Unit 4A +1 · Antlered rifle · General deer · Any antlered deer · 4A and 4B | Antlered rifle · General deer · Any antlered deer · 4A and 4B | 4A +1 | Oct 23–Nov 1 | 10% | — | 31 / 21 | — |
| 1801 Unit 4A +1 · Antlered rifle · General · Any antlered deer · 04A/04B | Antlered rifle · General · Any antlered deer · 04A/04B | 4A +1 | Oct 24–Nov 2 | 69% (small sample) | — | 1 / 1 | — |
| 1802 Unit 4B +1 · Antlered rifle · General · Any antlered deer · 04B/04A | Antlered rifle · General · Any antlered deer · 04B/04A | 4B +1 | Dec 12–31 | 54% (small sample) | — | 2 / 0 | — |
| 1006 Unit 5A +1 · Antlered rifle · General deer · Any antlered deer · 5A and 5B | Antlered rifle · General deer · Any antlered deer · 5A and 5B | 5A +1 | Oct 30–Nov 8 | 5% | 5▼1 | 42 / 30 | — |
| 1152New 2026 Youth · Unit 5A +1 · Antlered rifle · Youth-only (general) deer · Any antlered deer · 5A and 5B | Antlered rifle · Youth-only (general) deer · Any antlered deer · 5A and 5BYouth | 5A +1 | Oct 9–15 | 3% (small sample) | 5 | 4 / 38 | — |
| 1803 Unit 5A +1 · Antlered rifle · General · Any antlered deer · 05A/05B | Antlered rifle · General · Any antlered deer · 05A/05B | 5A +1 | Oct 31–Nov 9 | 50% (small sample) | — | 1 / 0 | — |
| 1007 Unit 6A · Antlered rifle · General deer · Antlered mule deer · 6A | Antlered rifle · General deer · Antlered mule deer · 6A | 6A | Oct 30–Nov 5 | 5% | 6▼1 | 45 / 59 | — |
| 1074 Unit 6A · Antlered rifle · General deer · Antlered whitetail deer · 6A | Antlered rifle · General deer · Antlered whitetail deer · 6A | 6A | Oct 23–29 | 12% | — | 10 / 12 | — |
| 1075 Unit 6A · Antlered rifle · General deer · Antlered whitetail deer · 6A | Antlered rifle · General deer · Antlered whitetail deer · 6A | 6A | Dec 11–31 | <1% (small sample) | 15▲8 | 2 / 76 | — |
| 1008New 2026 Unit 6B · Antlered rifle · General deer · Antlered mule deer · 6B (except Camp Navajo) | Antlered rifle · General deer · Antlered mule deer · 6B (except Camp Navajo) | 6B | Nov 6–12 | 27% | 10 | 22 / 19 | — |
| 1076 Unit 6B · Antlered rifle · General deer · Antlered whitetail deer · 6B (except Camp Navajo) | Antlered rifle · General deer · Antlered whitetail deer · 6B (except Camp Navajo) | 6B | Oct 30–Nov 5 | 36% | 0 | 5 / 9 | — |
| 1077 Unit 6B +1 · Antlered rifle · General deer · Antlered whitetail deer · 6B (except Camp Navajo) and 8 | Antlered rifle · General deer · Antlered whitetail deer · 6B (except Camp Navajo) and 8 | 6B +1 | Dec 11–31 | 4% (small sample) | — | 2 / 8 | — |
| 1184New 2026 Unit 6B · Antlered muzzleloader · Muzzleloader deer · Any antlered deer · 6B (except Camp Navajo) | Antlered muzzleloader · Muzzleloader deer · Any antlered deer · 6B (except Camp Navajo) | 6B | Oct 23–29 | 58% | 3 | 20 / 13 | — |
| 1009New 2026 Unit 7 +1 · Antlered rifle · General deer · Any antlered deer · 7 and 9 | Antlered rifle · General deer · Any antlered deer · 7 and 9 | 7 +1 | Oct 30–Nov 8 | 14% | 4 | 120 / 142 | — |
| 1010 Unit 7 +1 · Antlered rifle · General deer · Any antlered deer · 7 and 9 | Antlered rifle · General deer · Any antlered deer · 7 and 9 | 7 +1 | Dec 11–31 | <1% (small sample) | 26▲22 | 2 / 135 | — |
| 1180New 2026 Unit 7 +1 · Either-sex handgun · Champ · Any deer · 7 and 9 | Either-sex handgun · Champ · Any deer · 7 and 9 | 7 +1 | Oct 23–29 | 12% | — | 30 / 2 | — |
| 1011 Unit 8 · Antlered rifle · General deer · Antlered mule deer | Antlered rifle · General deer · Antlered mule deer | 8 | Oct 30–Nov 5 | 7% | 5 | 35 / 57 | — |
Showing 1–25 of 218 · sorted by unit
Show all 218 huntsWhat These Columns Mean
- Odds at your points —
- the share of first-choice applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2026 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year. A badge marked * had under five tags, so one applicant either way swings it.
- Pts needed —
- the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2026 draw; the ▲ or ▼ is how far that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold. A 0 marks a hunt that went Undersubscribed: fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
- Tags / apps —
- tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them.
- Success —
- the share of hunters in the unit who killed an animal, from the latest harvest report on file. It is the whole unit's figure, not the hunt's.
- Private land, RFW, ranch, youth —
- tags not every hunter can use: private-land-only hunts need landowner access, ranch hunts (Colorado's Ranching for Wildlife, Utah's CWMUs) come with access to one ranch, youth tags have an age limit. They are never best bets and never colour the map.
All 82 Units
Each unit has its own page: where it is on the map, how much of it is public land, what the hunters who went there killed last season, and every license type you can apply for inside it.
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About These Numbers
Every percentage here is the chance an applicant with that many points had in the draw year shown, computed from the agency's published results; quotas, applicant numbers and point levels change every year. A dash means the agency did not publish the number. Under five tags the percentage is flagged: one applicant either way swings it. Check the agency's site and apply there; we don't take applications. How we compute these.