Arizona Elk · Unit 4B
Arizona Unit 4B covers 854,983 acres and lies 19 miles west of Holbrook and 29 miles north-west of Snowflake. 46% of it is public land, mostly national forest (23%) and state trust land (18%). In 2025, 327 people hunted elk here and took 134, a 41% success rate (sum of published weapon rows). Its most applied-for hunt, 3002, put up 1 tag (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 157 nonresident first-choice applicants.
6 licenses · NR capped at 10%
first choice, NR
2025, all licenses
23% Forest Service
854,983 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
- 41%
- Season
- Nov 27 – Dec 3
- Tags / Apps
- 17 / 65
- If Drawn
- $825
- Success
- 41%
- Season
- Nov 6–12
- Tags / Apps
- 50 / 8
- If Drawn
- $825
- Success
- 41%
- Season
- Oct 9–15
- Tags / Apps
- 15 / 7
- If Drawn
- $825
- Success
- 41%
- Season
- Sep 11–24
- Tags / Apps
- 25 / 2
- If Drawn
- $825
Every License in Unit 4B
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3002 | General Elk | <1% (small sample) | — | |
| 3014 | General Elk | 7% | 8 ▲1 | |
| 3038 | General Elk · Antlerless elk | 5% | — | |
| 3096 | Champ | 2% | — | |
| 3130 | Archery-Only Elk | <1% | 17 ▲2 | |
| 3174 | Archery-Only Elk · Antlerless elk | 100% | 0 ▼9 |
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) | 327 | 134 | 41% |
| 2024 (summed) | 344 | 124 | 36% |
| 2023 (summed) | 474 | 203 | 43% |
| 2022 (summed) | 471 | 217 | 46% |
| 2021 (summed) | 357 | 158 | 44% |
| 2020 (summed) | 381 | 164 | 43% |
| 2019 (summed) | 383 | 146 | 38% |
| 2018 (summed) | 404 | 193 | 48% |
| 2017 (summed) | 385 | 201 | 52% |
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Elk | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archery-only bull, early | 86 | 27 | 31% |
| Archery-only antlerless | 16 | 3 | 19% |
| General bull · 14 licenses | 13 | 8 | 62% |
| General bull · 171 licenses | 134 | 47 | 35% |
| General antlerless | 43 | 26 | 60% |
| Champ | 13 | 11 | 85% |
| Limited opportunity any elk (zeniff hunt area; dry lake hunt area) (unit share) | 22 | 12 | 55% |
2025 split: archery 42 (31%) from 124 hunters, 34%, firearm 92 (69%) from 203 hunters, 45%
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 | 460,619 ac | 54% |
| National Forest | 196,298 ac | 23% |
| State trust land | 153,131 ac | 18% |
| BLM | 42,726 ac | 5% |
| State land | 1,950 ac | <1% |
| Tribal | 179 ac | <1% |
| County or city land | 77 ac | <1% |
What the Agency Says About the Area
Unit 4B – Beginning at AZ Hwy 260 and the Sitgreaves National Forest boundary with the Tonto National Forest; northeasterly on AZ Hwy 260 to AZ Hwy 277; northeasterly on AZ Hwy 277 to Hwy 377; northeasterly on AZ Hwy 377 to AZ Hwy 77; northeasterly on AZ Hwy 77 to I-40 Exit 286; northeasterly along the westbound lane of I-40 to Exit 292; north on AZ Hwy 77 to the Navajo Indian Reservation boundary; west along the…
▸ 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. How we compute these.
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