New Mexico · Deer · any legal big-game sporting arm
New Mexico deer hunt DER-1-186
Unit 14. 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 55 licences on hunt code DER-1-186 in 2026 and issued 55 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 35 nonresident applicants ranked it first and 2 drew it, 5.71%; 1,066 resident applicants ranked it first and 45 drew it, 4.22%; 38 guided (outfitter) applicants ranked it first and none of them drew it.
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 | 1,066 | 45 | 4.22% | 1,070 | 47 | 85.45% |
| 2026 | Nonresident | 35 | 2 | 5.71% | 45 | 3 | 5.46% |
| 2026 | Guided (outfitter) | 38 | 0 | 0.00% | 69 | 5 | 9.09% |
| 2025 | Resident | 1,127 | 42 | 3.73% | 1,108 | 47 | 85.46% |
| 2025 | Nonresident | 37 | 2 | 5.41% | 62 | 3 | 5.45% |
| 2025 | Guided (outfitter) | 52 | 4 | 7.69% | 40 | 5 | 9.09% |
| 2024 | Resident | 1,142 | 46 | 4.03% | 1,091 | 47 | 85.45% |
| 2024 | Nonresident | 32 | 0 | 0.00% | 54 | 3 | 5.46% |
| 2024 | Guided (outfitter) | 20 | 1 | 5.00% | 40 | 5 | 9.09% |
| 2023 | Resident | 1,270 | 46 | 3.62% | 1,250 | 47 | 85.45% |
| 2023 | Nonresident | 53 | 2 | 3.77% | 46 | 3 | 5.45% |
| 2023 | Guided (outfitter) | 31 | 5 | 16.13% | 53 | 5 | 9.1% |
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 | 55 | 55 | 1,139 | 2,323 |
| 2025 | 55 | 55 | 1,216 | 2,426 |
| 2024 | 55 | 55 | 1,194 | 2,379 |
| 2023 | 55 | 55 | 1,354 | 2,703 |
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