Arizona Deer 1194 — Unit 33

MUZZLELOADER DEER | Antlered whitetail deer | 33

What you may take
MUZZLELOADER DEER | Antlered whitetail deer | 33
Weapon
Muzzleloader
Where
Unit 33
83% public of 663,829 acres
Season (2026)
Nov 13–19, 2026
Tags (2026)
27
for 20 first-choice applicants · nonresidents capped at 10%
All deer success here (2025)
26%
of everyone who hunted the area

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Odds by point level — 2026 draw

Undersubscribed: 20 of 27 tags claimed by first-choice nonresident applicants in 2026. Everyone who applied drew and the rest went to the leftover draw — the 100% reflects low demand, not a great tag. A code like this can flip the year demand catches up.

Prior-draw probability for a first-choice nonresident applicant. 27 tags, 20 first-choice applicants, drew out at 1 points. Source: 2026 F Draw Report · p. 44.

Points Your chance Applicants Drawn
0 100% 10 11
1 100% 7 10
2 100% 0 0
3 100% 3 6
4 100% 0 0
5–10 100% same chance at every one of these levels

Computed from the agency's published draw results. A dash means Arizona Game & Fish Department did not publish a count for that level. How we compute these.

What it costs (2026 nonresident fees)

Cash to apply
$175
Out of pocket if unsuccessful
$175
Total if drawn
$475
Refunded if unsuccessful
$0

At the 2026 odds, expected cost per hunt-year ranges from $475 (enough points to draw) .

Nonresident hunt permit-tag application fee (per applicant, per species) · paid at application $15 source
Nonresident Combination Hunt and Fish license (only NR license valid for the draw; valid 1 year from purchase) · paid at application $160 source
Bonus point only (application fee; no tag fee) · only for a point bought without applying — an unsuccessful applicant gets the point free $15 source
Nonresident deer hunt permit-tag ($315 incl. $15 application fee) · paid if drawn $300 source

Optional, not counted above: PointGuard (optional tag-surrender insurance, per species per applicant) $10 and PointGuard Plus (optional; all eligible species for three consecutive draw cycles) $25.

Not applying this year? A point-only purchase costs $15 and keeps you moving toward the 1-point cut.

Next application window: closes Jun 2, 2027 (expected). Last cycle's schedule rolled forward — confirm when the agency publishes.

Point creep & years to draw

Insufficient history (1 of 3 draws) — a creep trend needs at least three draw years.

Seasons (2026)

Split 1: Nov 13–19, 2026 p. 32

How this tag has hunted

Across every license type in Unit 33, Arizona Game & Fish Department counted 2,718 hunters and 715 all deer taken in 2025 — 26% of them killed something. Full Unit 33 profile: maps, public land, five years of harvest →

Hunters holding this license type (2025) — the rest of the area's hunters held something else:

What they hunted Hunters Harvest Success Days per animal
Type General 169 41 24%
Mule deer 41
Type General 167 83 50%
White-tailed deer 83
Type General 250 104 42%
White-tailed deer 102
Type General 249 111 45%
White-tailed deer 111
Type General 62 37 60%
White-tailed deer 37
Type Youth-Only (General) 173 114 66%
Mule deer 27
White-tailed deer 86
Type Youth-Only (General) 168 83 49%
Mule deer 16
White-tailed deer 67
Type Muzzleloader 253 85 34%
White-tailed deer 85
Type OTC Archery 1,227 57 9%
Mule deer 11
White-tailed deer 46

Arizona's figures come from AZGFD's post-season hunter questionnaire - survey estimates carrying a 90% confidence interval and a return count, not a census of animals checked in. Source: 2025 AZ Deer Harvest Summary (draw hunts only) 2025 AZ Over-the-Counter Archery Deer Harvest Summary

As a lower choice

2nd choice
39%

Tags issued to lower choices ÷ lower-choice applicants, as published. Points do not help a lower choice.

Year by year

The standard draw for nonresidents, one row per year.

Year Tags Applicants Applicants per tag Points needed Published odds Source
2026 27 20 0.7 1 100% 2026 F Draw Report · p. 44

Earlier years, when this number was a different hunt

Arizona reassigns hunt numbers between years. In these years 1194 stood for another unit or weapon, so they are listed here rather than counted as this hunt's history or in its point-creep trend.

Year · what it was Tags Applicants Applicants per tag Points needed Source
2025 · Unit 34A 2 1 0.5 3 2025 Fall Draw Report · p. 44
2024 · Unit 36A 7 8 1.1 2 2024 F Draw Report · p. 23
2023 · Unit 3A, 3C, archery 6 73 12.2 10 2023 F Draw Report · p. 31

Other licenses valid in Unit 33

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How to read these numbers

Every percentage on this page is a prior-draw probability: the chance an applicant with that many points would have drawn in the draw year shown, computed from the agency's published results. It is not a forecast — quotas, applicant numbers, and point creep change every year. Every figure links to the agency document it came from. Where a state does not publish a number, we show a dash, never a zero. Hunts with fewer than five tags show counts instead of percentages. Fees show the fee year used. Read the methodology for the engine details.

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