Arizona Elk 3814 — Unit 5A
Archery-Only | Early Bull elk | 05A
- What you may take
- Archery-Only | Early Bull elk | 05A (antlered)
- Weapon
- Archery
- Archery gear only — no rifle season on this license.
- Season (2025)
- Sep 12–25, 2025
- Tags (2025)
- 1
- for 0 first-choice applicants · nonresidents capped at 10%
- Hunter success here (2025)
- 42%
- of everyone who hunted the area
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Odds by point level — 2025 draw · no nonresident tags in 2026 — showing 2025
No first-choice applicants: 1 tag on offer in 2025 and nobody listed this hunt first. Anyone who had would have drawn.
Prior-draw probability for a first-choice nonresident applicant. 1 tags, 0 first-choice applicants. Source: 2025 M Draw Report · p. 63.
| Points | Your chance | Applicants | Drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 50% | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 50% | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 50% | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 50% | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | 50% | 0 | 0 |
| 5–10 | 50% the pool average — a floor for anyone holding points, since each point adds entries | — | — |
Unweighted tags ÷ applicants — state did not publish pools. Arizona Game & Fish Department publishes no per-level counts for this hunt; each point adds entries (points + 1), so the pool average is a floor for anyone holding points and an overstatement for a first-year applicant. How we compute these.
What it costs (2025 nonresident fees)
At the 2025 odds, expected cost per hunt-year ranges from $1,000 (enough points to draw) to $1,000 (lowest published odds).
Not applying this year? A point-only purchase costs $15 (Jan 13 – Feb 3, expected) and adds a point for next year's draw.
Next application window: opens Jan 13, closes Feb 3, 2027 (expected) · results ~February 23. Last cycle's schedule rolled forward — confirm when the agency publishes.
Point creep & years to draw
Insufficient history (0 of 3 draws) — a creep trend needs at least three draw years with a published drew-out level.
Seasons (2025)
How this tag has hunted
Across every license type in Unit 5A, Arizona Game & Fish Department counted 869 hunters and 369 elk taken in 2025 — 42% of them killed something. Full Unit 5A profile: maps, public land, five years of harvest →
Hunters holding this license type (2025) — the rest of the area's hunters held something else:
| What they hunted | Hunters | Harvest | Success | Days per animal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type Archery-Only Bull, Early | 135 | 30 | 22% | — |
| Type Archery-Only Bull, Early (Hopi) | 4 | 0 | 0% | — |
| Type Archery-Only Bull, Late | 37 | 5 | 14% | — |
| Type Archery-Only Bull, Late (Hopi) | — | — | — | — |
| Type Archery-Only Antlerless | 44 | 19 | 43% | — |
| Type Archery-Only Antlerless (Hopi) | 2 | 0 | 0% | — |
| Type General Bull | 276 | 89 | 32% | — |
| Type General Bull (Hopi) | 11 | 5 | 45% | — |
| Type General Antlerless | 174 | 105 | 60% | — |
| Type Youth-Only (General) | 116 | 89 | 77% | — |
| Type Youth-Only (General) (Hopi) | 7 | 0 | 0% | — |
| Type Limited Opportunity Antlerless (East and West Sunset Hunt Areas) | 21 | 16 | 76% | — |
| Type Limited Opportunity Antlerless (East and West Sunset Hunt Areas) | 18 | 7 | 39% | — |
| Type Limited Opportunity Antlerless (Hopi: East and West Sunset Hunt Areas) | 3 | 0 | 0% | — |
| Type Limited Opportunity Antlerless (Hopi: East and West Sunset Hunt Areas) | 21 | 4 | 19% | — |
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: 2025 AZ Elk Harvest Summary 2024 AZ Elk Harvest Summary
Year by year
The standard draw for nonresidents, one row per year.
| Year | Tags | Applicants | Applicants per tag | Points needed | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 2026 M Draw Report · p. 62 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | — | 2025 M Draw Report · p. 63 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | — | 2024 M Draw Report · p. 49 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | — | 2023 M Draw Report · p. 39 |
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How to read these numbers
Every percentage on this page is a prior-draw probability: the chance an applicant with that many points would have drawn in the draw year shown, computed from the agency's published results. It is not a forecast — quotas, applicant numbers, and point creep change every year. Every figure links to the agency document it came from. Where a state does not publish a number, we show a dash, never a zero. Hunts with fewer than five tags show counts instead of percentages. Fees show the fee year used. Read the methodology for the engine details.
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