Arizona Deer — Unit 26M
Arizona Unit 26M covers 1,335,846 acres and lies 4 miles south-west of Chandler. 19% of it is public land, mostly state trust land (16%) and BLM (1%). A further 29% is tribal land rather than public land. In 2025, 148 people hunted deer here and took 15 — 10% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Arizona Game & Fish Department has not offered a deer license in Unit 26M in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Arizona deer hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.
The country
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Who owns the ground
- Private 699,320 ac · 52%
- Tribal 384,893 ac · 29%
- State trust land 210,664 ac · 16%
- BLM 16,066 ac · 1%
- Bureau of Reclamation 8,319 ac · 1%
- Other public 7,054 ac · 1%
- County or city land 3,019 ac · 0%
- State land 2,856 ac · 0%
- Department of Defense 2,568 ac · 0%
- National Wildlife Refuge 588 ac · 0%
- National Park Service 472 ac · 0%
- National Forest 23 ac · 0%
How the hunting has gone
What Arizona Game & Fish Department publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Arizona Game & Fish Department publishes these per hunt rather than per unit; the rows below add its own figures together, since a hunter holds one tag for the species in a season. 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.
All deer
| Season | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 148 | 15 | 10% |
| 2024 | 101 | 12 | 12% |
| 2023 | 114 | 11 | 10% |
| 2022 | 212 | 12 | 6% |
| 2021 | 241 | 26 | 11% |
| 2020 | 222 | 22 | 10% |
| 2019 | 116 | 10 | 9% |
| 2018 | 117 | 0 | 0% |
Mule Deer
| Season | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | 15 | — |
| 2024 | — | 12 | — |
| 2023 | — | 11 | — |
| 2022 | — | 12 | — |
| 2021 | — | 26 | — |
| 2020 | — | 18 | — |
| 2019 | — | 10 | — |
White-tailed Deer
| Season | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | — | 4 | — |
What people carried (2025 harvest)
- Archery 30 · 100% · 148 hunters, 20% success
What the agency says about the area
Unit 26M – Beginning at the junction of I-17 and New River Rd. (Exit 232); southwesterly on New River Rd. to AZ Hwy 74; westerly on AZ Hwy 74 to U.S. Hwy 93; southeasterly on U.S. Hwy 93 to the Beardsley Canal; southwesterly on the Beardsley Canal to Indian School Rd.; west on Indian School Rd. to Jackrabbit Trail; south on Jackrabbit Trail to I-10 (Exit 121); west on I-10 to Oglesby Rd. (Exit 112); south on Oglesby…
Boundary: AZ Game and Fish Hunt Units (AZGFD ArcGIS feature service, layer 0)
Harvest: 2025 AZ Over-the-Counter Archery Deer Harvest Summary
Harvest: 2024 AZ Over-the-Counter Archery Deer Harvest Summary
Harvest: 2023 AZ Over-the-Counter Archery Deer Harvest Summary