New Mexico · Deer · any legal big-game sporting arm
New Mexico deer hunt DER-1-180
Unit 13. Bag limit fork-antlered deer (FAD). 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 2026 draw did
New Mexico offered 150 licences on hunt code DER-1-180 in 2026 and issued 150 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 35 nonresident applicants ranked it first and 8 drew it, 22.86%; 629 resident applicants ranked it first and 98 drew it, 15.58%; 8 guided (outfitter) applicants ranked it first and 8 drew it, 100.00%.
First-choice draw rate, by pool and year
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Resident | 629 | 98 | 15.58% | 1,161 | 127 | 84.67% |
| 2026 | Nonresident | 35 | 8 | 22.86% | 58 | 9 | 6% |
| 2026 | Guided (outfitter) | 8 | 8 | 100.00% | 10 | 14 | 9.33% |
| 2025 | Resident | 693 | 102 | 14.72% | 1,176 | 126 | 84% |
| 2025 | Nonresident | 15 | 4 | 26.67% | 46 | 9 | 6% |
| 2025 | Guided (outfitter) | 9 | 4 | 44.44% | 30 | 15 | 10% |
| 2024 | Resident | 620 | 104 | 16.77% | 1,218 | 129 | 86% |
| 2024 | Nonresident | 12 | 2 | 16.67% | 60 | 9 | 6% |
| 2024 | Guided (outfitter) | 2 | 2 | 100.00% | 18 | 12 | 8% |
| 2023 | Resident | 661 | 91 | 13.77% | 1,223 | 129 | 86% |
| 2023 | Nonresident | 23 | 5 | 21.74% | 72 | 9 | 6% |
| 2023 | Guided (outfitter) | 10 | 10 | 100.00% | 13 | 12 | 8% |
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.
The first-choice draw rate, year by year
One strip per pool, because the three are drawn separately under different shares and a single averaged line would hide the only distinction most readers are here for. Each figure is a record of what that year's draw did. None of it forecasts the next one.
Rounded to whole percentages here; the table above carries them to two decimals. A dash means nobody in that pool ranked this hunt first that year.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 150 | 150 | 672 | 1,901 |
| 2025 | 150 | 150 | 717 | 1,969 |
| 2024 | 150 | 150 | 634 | 1,930 |
| 2023 | 150 | 150 | 694 | 2,002 |
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
- 2026CompleteReport.xlsx — New Mexico Department of Wildlife, published 2026-04-13, fetched 2026-08-31
- 2025CompleteReport.xlsx — New Mexico Department of Wildlife, published 2025-04-09, fetched 2026-08-31
- 2024CompleteReport.xlsx — New Mexico Department of Wildlife, published 2024-04-09, fetched 2026-08-31
- 2023-odds_corrected_CN.xlsx — New Mexico Department of Wildlife, published 2023-04-11, fetched 2026-08-31