Arizona Deer · Unit 41

Arizona Unit 41 spans 1,816,410 acres, centered 51 miles north-east of Wellton. 77% of it is public land, mostly BLM (43%) and military (20%). In 2025, hunters took 90 mule deer here (sum of published weapon rows); hunter counts not published. Its most applied-for hunt, 1069, put up 55 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 69 nonresident first-choice applicants, 20 of whom drew, and the last tag went to someone with 3 points.

Tags, 2026
61

3 licenses · NR capped at 10%

Applicants
124

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
—

not published

Public Land
77%

43% BLM

Size
2,838 mi²

1,816,410 acres

Wellton Buckeye Goodyear Wickenburg Surprise 41

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 41

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
1069 26% 3
1191 3% (small sample) —
1192 2% 13

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) 845 95 11%
2024 (summed) 884 318 36%
2023 (summed) 694 176 25%
2022 (summed) 751 85 11%
2021 (summed) 983 122 12%
2020 (summed) 875 164 19%
2019 (summed) 768 184 24%
2018 (summed) 888 123 14%

Mule Deer

Year Hunters Deer Success
2025 (summed) — 90 —
2024 (summed) — 302 —
2023 (summed) — 176 —
2022 (summed) — 85 —
2021 (summed) — 122 —
2020 (summed) — 164 —
2019 (summed) — 181 —
2018 (summed) — 123 —

White-tailed Deer

Year Hunters Deer Success
2024 (summed) — 14 —
2019 (summed) — 3 —

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

2025 by LicenseHuntersDeerSuccess
General 443 86 19%
Mule deer · firearm — 81 —
Muzzleloader (unit share) 13 2 15%
Mule deer · archery (hunt 1 of 2) — 2 —
Otc archery 389 7 5%
Mule deer · archery (hunt 2 of 2) — 7 —

2025 split: firearm 81 (90%), archery 9 (10%)

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

BLM 789,100 ac 43%
Private 419,886 ac 23%
Department of Defense 359,398 ac 20%
State trust land 221,338 ac 12%
Bureau of Reclamation 19,189 ac 1%
County or city land 6,139 ac <1%
State land 1,125 ac <1%
National Wildlife Refuge 231 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 41 – Beginning at I-8 and U.S. Hwy 95 (in Yuma); easterly on I-8 to exit 87; northerly on the Agua Caliente Rd. to the Hyder Rd.; northeasterly on Hyder Rd. to 555th Ave.; north on 555th Ave. to Lahman Rd.; east on Lahman Rd., which becomes Agua Caliente Rd.; northeasterly on Agua Caliente Rd. to Old Hwy 80; northeasterly on Old Hwy 80 to Arizona Hwy 85; northerly on AZ Hwy 85 to Oglesby Rd.; north on Oglesby…

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 Over-the-Counter Archery Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  9. AZGFD 2023 AZ Deer Harvest Summary 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 Over-the-Counter Archery Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  17. AZGFD 2019 AZ Deer Harvest Summary 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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