Learn how Arizona’s Big Game Draw Process Works

Arizona Game and Fish Department
Arizona Game and Fish Department

PHOENIX-(Ammoland.com)- A lot of hunters will be scrambling the next few days, sifting through Arizona’s complex draw process and filling out hunt permit-tag applications for the 2017 pronghorn and elk hunts before Tuesday’s deadline.

Got seven minutes? Want some good advice? Before doing anything, watch a short video that can help to clarify everything you need to know from hunt permit-tags and bonus points to hunt numbers and draw passes. The video recently was produced by the Information Branch of the Arizona Game and Fish Department

View the video: https://youtu.be/tpI0lLp5Adk.

Arizona’s big game draw is designed to give all hopeful hunters a chance to hunt the state’s big game species. In the video, Amber Munig, the department’s big game management supervisor, explains a draw process that can be tricky at times.

“Our draw is complex in Arizona, but it’s because we have limited resources and high demand for those limited resources,” Munig said. “In order to make it fair for everybody to draw a tag at some point, we’ve put these restrictions on how the draw operates.”