New Mexico · Deer · any legal big-game sporting arm
New Mexico deer hunt DER-1-201
Unit 17. 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 80 licences on hunt code DER-1-201 in 2026 and issued 80 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 55 nonresident applicants ranked it first and 1 drew it, 1.82%; 1,162 resident applicants ranked it first and 53 drew it, 4.56%; 50 guided (outfitter) applicants ranked it first and 4 drew it, 8.00%.
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 | 1,162 | 53 | 4.56% | 1,622 | 68 | 85% |
| 2026 | Nonresident | 55 | 1 | 1.82% | 105 | 4 | 5% |
| 2026 | Guided (outfitter) | 50 | 4 | 8.00% | 45 | 8 | 10% |
| 2025 | Resident | 1,253 | 66 | 5.27% | 1,734 | 68 | 85% |
| 2025 | Nonresident | 67 | 3 | 4.48% | 130 | 4 | 5% |
| 2025 | Guided (outfitter) | 25 | 3 | 12.00% | 55 | 8 | 10% |
| 2024 | Resident | 1,190 | 60 | 5.04% | 1,733 | 68 | 85% |
| 2024 | Nonresident | 107 | 1 | 0.93% | 116 | 4 | 5% |
| 2024 | Guided (outfitter) | 53 | 6 | 11.32% | 55 | 8 | 10% |
| 2023 | Resident | 1,218 | 62 | 5.09% | 1,796 | 68 | 85% |
| 2023 | Nonresident | 64 | 4 | 6.25% | 123 | 4 | 5% |
| 2023 | Guided (outfitter) | 37 | 7 | 18.92% | 49 | 8 | 10% |
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 | 80 | 80 | 1,267 | 3,039 |
| 2025 | 80 | 80 | 1,345 | 3,264 |
| 2024 | 80 | 80 | 1,350 | 3,254 |
| 2023 | 80 | 80 | 1,319 | 3,287 |
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