Arizona Deer — Unit 46A

Arizona Unit 46A covers 400,701 acres and lies 82 miles south-west of Goodyear. 100% of it is public land, mostly wildlife refuge (100%). In 2024, hunters took 4 mule deer here. The 2026 draw put up 1 tag here for 3 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2026):1 Nonresident share:capped at 10% Applicants:3 Archery hunter success (2025):0% Public land:100% Size:400,701 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every deer license type on offer in Unit 46A, 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

1073 GENERAL DEER | Any antlered deer | 46A and 46B (Special Restrictions Apply - See Note 6) 1 tags · 3 applicants

11% Point builder 20% as 2nd choice

Hunt	Your odds (0 pts)	As 2nd choice	Points needed	Tags / applicants	Season
1073 ↗ GENERAL DEER \| Any antlered deer \| 46A and 46B (Special Restrictions Apply - See Note 6)	11% Point builder	20%	—	1 / 3	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

Unit 46A within Arizona

Unit 46A and its neighbours

Zoomable USGS topo, aerial imagery and shaded relief, with the neighboring areas drawn on.

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

Who owns the ground

National Wildlife Refuge 400,353 ac · 100%
Department of Defense 109 ac · 0%
Other public 78 ac · 0%
Private 41 ac · 0%
BLM 35 ac · 0%
National Park Service 11 ac · 0%

Source: BLM AZ Surface Management Agency (Polygon)

Nearby areas

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.