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New Mexico bear hunt BER-1-106

Unit 55: Valle Vidal. Dogs allowed.. Of the people who ranked this hunt first, how many drew it — year by year, and separately for each of the three pools New Mexico draws. Every figure comes from a Department of Wildlife report linked at the foot of this page.

What the 2019 draw did

New Mexico offered 20 licences on hunt code BER-1-106 in 2019 and issued 20 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 23 nonresident applicants ranked it first and 1 drew it, 4.35%; 228 resident applicants ranked it first and 17 drew it, 7.46%; 2 guided (outfitter) applicants ranked it first and 2 drew it, 100.00%.

This hunt code stops appearing after 2019. The department's 2026 report does not carry it, and this site does not map a retired code onto a current one — a renumbered hunt is not necessarily the same hunt, and the department has published nothing that says which is which. What is below is the record of the one year it was drawn.

Residency pool

First-choice draw rate, by pool and year

The rate is the winners who were awarded this hunt as their first choice, divided by the applicants in the same pool who ranked it first. Both are exact integers the department printed in the same row. A dash means nobody in that pool ranked the hunt first, so the draw answered nothing — it is an absent measurement, not a nought.
Year	Pool	Ranked it first	Drew on first choice	First-choice draw rate	Ranked it 2nd or 3rd	Licences to this pool	Share of the quota
2019	Resident	228	17	7.46%	125	17	—
2019	Nonresident	23	1	4.35%	17	1	—
2019	Guided (outfitter)	2	2	100.00%	0	2	—

Share of the quota is the department's own R% / NR% / O% column: this pool's share of the licences offered. It is an allocation split set by state law — a minimum of 84% resident, 10% outfitted, 6% nonresident — and not a chance of drawing. It reads 100% on any hunt residents took in full. It is shown because the department publishes it and a reader will meet it elsewhere, not because it answers the question this page is about.

Licences offered against licences issued

These are different numbers and the department publishes both. A hunt can fail to fill, and 35 of the 893 hunts in the 2026 report did.

Year	Licences offered	Licences issued	Applicants who ranked it first	Applicants in total
2019	20	20	253	395

Applicants in total counts everyone who ranked this hunt anywhere in their three choices, across all three pools. It is a measure of demand, not of competition for a first-choice licence.

Sources for this hunt

2019-Drawing-Odds-Complete-Report.xlsx — New Mexico Department of Wildlife, published 2019-06-26, fetched 2026-08-31

Nearby hunt codes

BER-1-102 BER-1-103 BER-1-104 BER-1-105 BER-2-106 BER-2-107 All New Mexico bear All New Mexico species

New Mexico grants no preference to previously unsuccessful applicants, so nothing on this page accumulates and nothing here predicts next year. See how these numbers are produced and checked, or the application deadlines.