Arizona Deer · Unit 37A

Arizona Unit 37A spans 1,071,864 acres, centered 16 miles north-west of Marana. 69% of it is public land, mostly state trust land (48%) and BLM (18%). In 2025, hunters took 120 mule deer here (sum of published weapon rows); hunter counts not published. Its most applied-for hunt, 1064, put up 15 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 12 nonresident first-choice applicants, 1 of whom drew.

Tags, 2026
30

2 licenses · NR capped at 10%

Applicants
23

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
—

not published

Public Land
69%

49% State

Size
1,675 mi²

1,071,864 acres

Marana Eloy Coolidge Tucson Sahuarita 37A

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.

Best Bets at 0 Points

Ranked by your odds times how often that license type's hunters filled their tag in 2025. Nonresident, first choice, 2026 draw; licenses with at least 10 tags that anyone can buy.

Every License in Unit 37A

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
1064 11% —
1065 23% 6

First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2026 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file.

Draw results: AZGFD 2026 F Draw Report, retrieved Aug 31, 2026.

If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): $475 ($175 to apply). Closes Jun 2, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

Harvest

All deer

Year Hunters Deer Success
2025 (summed) 1,093 124 11%
2024 (summed) 784 126 16%
2023 (summed) 737 98 13%
2022 (summed) 1,021 126 12%
2021 (summed) 1,172 107 9%
2020 (summed) 1,012 128 13%
2019 (summed) 912 126 14%
2018 (summed) 1,047 198 19%

Mule Deer

Year Hunters Deer Success
2025 (summed) — 120 —
2024 (summed) — 113 —
2023 (summed) — 92 —
2022 (summed) — 114 —
2021 (summed) — 104 —
2020 (summed) — 118 —
2019 (summed) — 106 —
2018 (summed) — 193 —

White-tailed Deer

Year Hunters Deer Success
2025 (summed) — 4 —
2024 (summed) — 10 —
2023 (summed) — 6 —
2022 (summed) — 13 —
2021 (summed) — 2 —
2020 (summed) — 10 —
2019 (summed) — 20 —
2018 (summed) — 5 —

A dash under Hunters: hunter counts not published for that year or sub-species.

2025 by LicenseHuntersDeerSuccess
General · 172 licenses 149 56 38%
Mule deer · firearm (hunt 1 of 2) — 56 —
General · 174 licenses 143 40 28%
Mule deer · firearm (hunt 2 of 2) — 38 —
White-tailed deer · firearm — 2 —
Otc archery 801 28 4%
Mule deer · archery — 26 —
White-tailed deer · archery — 2 —

2025 split: firearm 94 (78%), archery 26 (22%)

What Arizona Game & Fish Department publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. Arizona Game & Fish Department publishes no whole-unit line for 2025; a year's total is the sum of published weapon rows, added only where the lines do not overlap. Hunter counts not published for 2025. 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: AZGFD 2025 AZ Over-the-Counter Archery Deer…; AZGFD 2025 AZ Deer Harvest Summary; AZGFD 2024 AZ Deer Harvest Summary.

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 <1%
County or city land 2,236 ac <1%
National Park Service 1,783 ac <1%
Department of Defense 656 ac <1%
Tribal 381 ac <1%
Other public 132 ac <1%
National Forest 0 ac <1%

Source: Bureau of Land Management Arizona State Office with the Arizona State Land Department (Arizona Land Resources Information System, ALRIS) and Premier Data Services 2026 BLM AZ Surface Management Agency.

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…

Source: AZGFD 2026 Game and Fish Laws and Rules Book.

▸ Sources 21
  1. AZGFD 2026 F Draw Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  2. AZGFD 2026 Pronghorn and Elk Hunt Draw Information fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  3. AZGFD 2026 Game and Fish Laws and Rules Book fees, area description, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  4. AZGFD 2025 AZ Over-the-Counter Archery Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  5. AZGFD 2025 AZ Deer Harvest Summary harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  6. AZGFD 2024 AZ Deer Harvest Summary harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  7. AZGFD 2024 AZ Over-the-Counter Archery Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  8. AZGFD 2023 AZ Deer Harvest Summary harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  9. AZGFD 2023 AZ Over-the-Counter Archery Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  10. AZGFD 2022 AZ Over-the-Counter Archery Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  11. AZGFD 2022 AZ Deer Harvest Summary harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  12. AZGFD 2021 AZ Over-the-Counter Archery Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  13. AZGFD 2021 AZ Deer Harvest Summary harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  14. AZGFD 2020 AZ Deer Harvest Summary harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  15. AZGFD 2020 AZ Over-the-Counter Archery Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  16. AZGFD 2019 AZ Deer Harvest Summary harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  17. AZGFD 2019 AZ Over-the-Counter Archery Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  18. AZGFD 2018 AZ Over-the-Counter Archery Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  19. AZGFD 2018 AZ Deer Harvest Summary harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  20. AZGFD 2026 AZ Game and Fish Hunt Units boundary, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  21. Bureau of Land Management Arizona State Office with the Arizona State Land Department (Arizona Land Resources Information System, ALRIS) and Premier Data Services 2026 BLM AZ Surface Management Agency land ownership, retrieved Sep 1, 2026

About These Numbers

Odds are from the 2026 draw, the latest on file, computed from Arizona Game & Fish Department's published results. They are what happened in that draw, not a forecast. Under five tags a percentage carries a *, because one applicant either way swings it. A dash means the agency did not publish the number, and a date marked expected is last cycle's schedule rolled forward. How we compute these.

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