Arizona Deer — Unit 44A
Arizona Unit 44A covers 1,510,199 acres and lies 47 miles west of Wickenburg and 67 miles north-west of Buckeye. 92% of it is public land, mostly BLM (70%) and state trust land (20%). In 2025, 368 people hunted deer here and took 68 — 18% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 45 tags here for 116 first-choice applicants, and the last tag went to someone with 3 points.
Your chance of drawing here
Every deer license type on offer in Unit 44A, 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-
1071 GENERAL DEER | Any antlered deer | 43A, 43B, 44A, and 44B (Special Restrictions Apply - See Note 7) 45 tags · 116 applicants · needed 3 pts14% Point builder 3% as 2nd choice
| Hunt | Your odds (0 pts) | As 2nd choice | Points needed | Tags / applicants | Season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1071 ↗ GENERAL DEER | Any antlered deer | 43A, 43B, 44A, and 44B (Special Restrictions Apply - See Note 7) | 14% Point builder | 3% | 3 steady since 2023 | 45 / 116 | Nov 6–15, 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
- BLM 1,054,046 ac · 70%
- State trust land 298,264 ac · 20%
- Private 107,473 ac · 7%
- Bureau of Reclamation 23,934 ac · 2%
- Tribal 15,919 ac · 1%
- Department of Defense 7,021 ac · 0%
- National Wildlife Refuge 2,502 ac · 0%
- State land 776 ac · 0%
- Other public 240 ac · 0%
- County or city land 20 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 | 368 | 68 | 18% |
| 2024 | 402 | 109 | 27% |
| 2023 | 362 | 104 | 29% |
| 2022 | 150 | 0 | 0% |
| 2021 | 451 | 76 | 17% |
| 2020 | 352 | 83 | 24% |
| 2019 | 172 | 39 | 23% |
Mule Deer
| Season | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | 65 | — |
| 2024 | — | 109 | — |
| 2023 | — | 104 | — |
| 2021 | — | 76 | — |
| 2020 | — | 83 | — |
| 2019 | — | 39 | — |
White-tailed Deer
| Season | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | — | 2 | — |
What people carried (2025 harvest)
- Archery 133 · 100% · 368 hunters, 36% success
What the agency says about the area
Unit 44A – Beginning at U.S. Hwy 95 and the Bill Williams River; south along U.S. Hwy 95 to AZ Hwy 72; southeasterly on AZ Hwy 72 to Vicksburg; south on the Vicksburg-Kofa National Wildlife Refuge Rd. to I-10; easterly on I-10 to the Salome-Hassayampa Rd. (Exit 81); northwesterly on the Salome-Hassayampa Rd. to Eagle Eye Rd.; northeasterly on Eagle Eye Rd. to Aguila; east on U.S. Hwy 60 to AZ Hwy 71; northeasterly…
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)
Harvest: 2024 AZ Over-the-Counter Archery Deer Harvest Summary