Arizona Deer 1207 — Unit 27

Archery-Only | Antlered mule deer | 27

What you may take
Archery-Only | Antlered mule deer | 27
Weapon
Archery
Archery gear only — no rifle season on this license.
Where
Unit 27
95% public of 865,538 acres
Season (2025)
Aug 22 – Sep 11, 2025
Tags (2026)
4
for 37 first-choice applicants · nonresidents capped at 10%
All deer success here (2025)
37%
of everyone who hunted the area

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Odds by point level — 2026 draw

Prior-draw probability for a first-choice nonresident applicant. 4 tags, 37 first-choice applicants, drew out at 10 points. Source: 2026 F Draw Report · p. 47.

Points Your chance Applicants Drawn
0 2% (2%–3%) 16 0
1 5% (5%–5%) 6 0
2 7% (7%–8%) 4 1
3 10% (9%–10%) 6 1
4 12% (12%–13%) 2 0
5 15% 0 0
6 17% (16%–18%) 1 0
7 100% (100%–100%) 1 0
8 22%
9 24% 0 0
10 100% 0 1
11 100%
12 100% (100%–100%) 1 1
13 100% 0 0

Monte Carlo over the common pool, scaled to the nonresident cap. 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) to $7,420.19 (lowest published odds).

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 archery deer nonpermit-tag (OTC, capped, online-only sale; same $300 as the draw permit-tag) · 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 10-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 (2 of 3 draws) — a creep trend needs at least three draw years.

Seasons (2025)

Split 1: Aug 22 – Sep 11, 2025 p. 5

How this tag has hunted

Across every license type in Unit 27, Arizona Game & Fish Department counted 1,595 hunters and 594 all deer taken in 2025 — 37% of them killed something. Full Unit 27 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 429 248 58%
Mule deer 243
White-tailed deer 2
Type Youth-Only (General) 89 77 87%
Mule deer 64
White-tailed deer 13
Type Archery-Only 239 67 28%
Mule deer 69
Type General (unit share) 210 87 41%
White-tailed deer 85
Type General (unit share) 238 76 32%
White-tailed deer 72
Type General (unit share) 24 11 46%
White-tailed deer 11
Type OTC Archery 366 28 5%
White-tailed deer 28

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
5%

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 4 37 9.3 10 0.00% 2026 F Draw Report · p. 47
2025 28 24 0.9 4 70% 2025 Fall Draw Report · p. 47

Other licenses valid in Unit 27

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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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