Arizona Deer — Unit 37A
Arizona Unit 37A covers 1,071,864 acres and lies 16 miles north-west of Marana and 26 miles west of Oro Valley. 69% of it is public land, mostly state trust land (48%) and BLM (18%). In 2025, 1,093 people hunted deer here and took 124 — 11% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 15 tags here for 12 first-choice applicants.
Your chance of drawing here
Every deer license type on offer in Unit 37A, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.
Chances are from the 2026 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.
Simple view Odds at every point level-
11% Point builder 3% as 2nd choice
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23% Long shot 13% as 2nd choice
| Hunt | Your odds (0 pts) | As 2nd choice | Points needed | Tags / applicants | Season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1064 ↗ GENERAL DEER | Any antlered deer | 37A | 11% Point builder | 3% | — +1 since 2023 | 15 / 12 | Oct 30 – Nov 5, 2026 |
| 1065 ↗ GENERAL DEER | Any antlered deer | 37A | 23% Long shot | 13% | 6 steady since 2024 | 15 / 11 | Nov 13–19, 2026 |
What these columns mean
- Your odds —
- the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2026 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year.
- The badge —
- plain language for that number. Likely draw 75% or better · Real chance 40%+ · Long shot 15%+ · Point builder below that, so you are applying mainly to bank a point · Undersubscribed means fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
- As 2nd choice —
- Arizona lets you name more than one hunt on the application. Miss on your first choice and you go into the pot for whatever tags are left, alongside everyone else's second choices. Points never help a lower choice, so this number is the same whatever you have banked — it is usually worth naming a hunt that goes undersubscribed.
- Points needed —
- the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2026 draw, and how that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold.
- Tags / applicants —
- tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them. Under five tags we print counts instead of a percentage, because one applicant either way swings it.
What it costs to apply (2026 nonresident fees)
| License | Up front | Gone if you miss | If you draw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Per application | $175 | $175 | $475 |
Application window: closes Jun 2, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.
The country
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Who owns the ground
- State trust land 518,203 ac · 48%
- Private 336,031 ac · 31%
- BLM 197,063 ac · 18%
- Bureau of Reclamation 10,556 ac · 1%
- State land 4,820 ac · 0%
- County or city land 2,236 ac · 0%
- National Park Service 1,783 ac · 0%
- Department of Defense 656 ac · 0%
- Tribal 381 ac · 0%
- Other public 132 ac · 0%
- National Forest 0 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 | 1,093 | 124 | 11% |
| 2024 | 784 | 126 | 16% |
| 2023 | 737 | 98 | 13% |
| 2022 | 1,021 | 126 | 12% |
| 2021 | 1,172 | 107 | 9% |
| 2020 | 1,012 | 128 | 13% |
| 2019 | 912 | 126 | 14% |
| 2018 | 1,047 | 198 | 19% |
Mule Deer
| Season | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | 120 | — |
| 2024 | — | 113 | — |
| 2023 | — | 92 | — |
| 2022 | — | 114 | — |
| 2021 | — | 104 | — |
| 2020 | — | 118 | — |
| 2019 | — | 106 | — |
| 2018 | — | 193 | — |
White-tailed Deer
| Season | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | 4 | — |
| 2024 | — | 12 | — |
| 2023 | — | 6 | — |
| 2022 | — | 13 | — |
| 2021 | — | 2 | — |
| 2020 | — | 10 | — |
| 2019 | — | 20 | — |
| 2018 | — | 5 | — |
What people carried (2025 harvest)
- Firearm 192 · 77% · 292 hunters, 66% success
- Archery 56 · 23% · 801 hunters, 7% success
What the agency says about the area
Unit 37A – Beginning at the junction of I-10 and Tangerine Rd. (Exit 240); southeast on I-10 to Avra Valley Rd. (Exit 242); west on Avra Valley Rd. to Sandario Rd.; south on Sandario Rd. to AZ Hwy 86; southwest on AZ Hwy 86 to the Tohono O’odham Nation boundary; north, east, and west along this boundary to Battaglia Rd.; east on Battaglia Rd. to Toltec Rd.; north on Toltec Rd. to I-10 (Exit 203); southeast on I-10…
Boundary: AZ Game and Fish Hunt Units (AZGFD ArcGIS feature service, layer 0)
Harvest: 2025 AZ Over-the-Counter Archery Deer Harvest Summary
Harvest: 2025 AZ Deer Harvest Summary (draw hunts only)