Arizona Elk · Unit 3B
Arizona Unit 3B covers 370,547 acres and lies 11 miles north-east of Show Low and 42 miles south-east of Holbrook. 45% of it is public land, mostly national forest (28%) and state trust land (16%). In 2025, 642 people hunted elk here and took 313, a 49% success rate (sum of published weapon rows). Its most applied-for hunt, 3101, put up 3 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 136 nonresident first-choice applicants, 1 of whom drew, and the last tag went to someone with 26 points.
6 licenses · NR capped at 10%
first choice, NR
2025, all licenses
28% Forest Service
370,547 acres
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.
- Success
- 49%
- Season
- Nov 27 – Dec 3
- Tags / Apps
- 20 / 56
- If Drawn
- $825
- Success
- 49%
- Season
- Oct 16–22
- Tags / Apps
- 100 / 7
- If Drawn
- $825
- Success
- 49%
- Season
- Dec 11–31
- Tags / Apps
- 250 / 15
- If Drawn
- $825
- Success
- 49%
- Season
- Sep 11–24
- Tags / Apps
- 25 / 2
- If Drawn
- $825
Every License in Unit 3B
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3101 | Muzzleloader Elk | <1% (small sample) | 26 | |
| 3105 | Muzzleloader Elk | 11% | 7 | |
| 3108 | Muzzleloader Elk · Antlerless elk | 11% | 6 ▲2 | |
| 3109 | Muzzleloader Elk · Antlerless elk | 39% | — | |
| 3128 | Archery-Only Elk | <1% | 16 ▼2 | |
| 3172 | Archery-Only Elk · Antlerless elk | 20% | — |
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 M Draw Report, retrieved Aug 31, 2026.
If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): $825 ($175 to apply). Open Jan 13 – Feb 3, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Elk | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 (summed) | 642 | 313 | 49% |
| 2024 (summed) | 554 | 300 | 54% |
| 2023 (summed) | 712 | 292 | 41% |
| 2022 (summed) | 612 | 309 | 50% |
| 2021 (summed) | 624 | 306 | 49% |
| 2020 (summed) | 607 | 289 | 48% |
| 2019 (summed) | — | 295 | — |
| 2018 (summed) | — | 334 | — |
| 2017 (summed) | 560 | 259 | 46% |
A dash under Hunters: hunter counts not published for that year.
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Elk | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archery-only bull, early | 68 | 13 | 19% |
| Archery-only antlerless | 21 | 0 | 0% |
| Muzzleloader bull · 29 licenses | 25 | 16 | 64% |
| Muzzleloader bull · 195 licenses | 167 | 64 | 38% |
| Muzzleloader antlerless · 97 licenses | 95 | 64 | 67% |
| Muzzleloader antlerless · 250 licenses | 231 | 142 | 61% |
| Limited opportunity (ham) antlerless (show low creek hunt area) (unit share) (hunt 1 of 5) | 9 | 6 | 67% |
| Limited opportunity (ham) antlerless (show low creek hunt area) (unit share) (hunt 2 of 5) | 9 | 4 | 44% |
| Limited opportunity (ham) antlerless (show low creek hunt area) (unit share) (hunt 3 of 5) | 7 | 0 | 0% |
| Limited opportunity (ham) antlerless (show low creek hunt area) (unit share) (hunt 4 of 5) | 5 | 0 | 0% |
| Limited opportunity (ham) antlerless (show low creek hunt area) (unit share) (hunt 5 of 5) | 5 | 4 | 80% |
2025 split: archery 27 (9%) from 124 hunters, 22%, firearm 286 (91%) from 518 hunters, 55%
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. 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 Elk Harvest Summary; AZGFD 2024 AZ Elk Harvest Summary; AZGFD 2023 AZ Elk Harvest Summary.
The Ground
| Private | 205,551 ac | 55% |
| National Forest | 102,524 ac | 28% |
| State trust land | 58,609 ac | 16% |
| BLM | 2,570 ac | <1% |
| State land | 911 ac | <1% |
| County or city land | 335 ac | <1% |
| Tribal | 43 ac | <1% |
What the Agency Says About the Area
Unit 3B – Beginning at Snowflake; southerly along AZ Hwy 77 to U.S. Hwy 60; southwesterly along U.S. Hwy 60 to the White Mountain Apache Indian Reservation boundary; easterly along the reservation boundary to the Vernon-McNary Rd. (FR 224); northerly along the Vernon-McNary Rd. to U.S. Hwy 60; west on U.S. Hwy 60 to AZ Hwy 61; northeasterly on AZ Hwy 61 to AZ Hwy 180A; northerly on AZ Hwy 180A to Concho-Snowflake…
▸ Sources 14
- AZGFD 2026 M Draw Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- AZGFD 2026 Pronghorn and Elk Hunt Draw Information fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- AZGFD 2026 Game and Fish Laws and Rules Book fees, area description, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- AZGFD 2025 AZ Elk Harvest Summary harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- AZGFD 2024 AZ Elk Harvest Summary harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- AZGFD 2023 AZ Elk Harvest Summary harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- AZGFD 2022 AZ Elk Harvest Summary harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- AZGFD 2021 AZ Elk Harvest Summary harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- AZGFD 2020 AZ Elk Harvest Summary harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- AZGFD 2019 AZ Elk Harvest Summary harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- AZGFD 2018 AZ Elk Harvest Summary harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- AZGFD 2017 AZ Elk Harvest Summary harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- AZGFD 2026 AZ Game and Fish Hunt Units boundary, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- 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.
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