New Mexico · Deer · any legal big-game sporting arm
New Mexico deer hunt DER-1-202
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-1-202 in 2026 and issued 80 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 23 nonresident applicants ranked it first and 1 drew it, 4.35%; 307 resident applicants ranked it first and 30 drew it, 9.77%; 27 guided (outfitter) applicants ranked it first and 3 drew it, 11.11%.
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 | 307 | 30 | 9.77% | 1,378 | 68 | 85% |
| 2026 | Nonresident | 23 | 1 | 4.35% | 109 | 4 | 5% |
| 2026 | Guided (outfitter) | 27 | 3 | 11.11% | 53 | 8 | 10% |
| 2025 | Resident | 301 | 26 | 8.64% | 1,359 | 68 | 85% |
| 2025 | Nonresident | 54 | 3 | 5.56% | 134 | 4 | 5% |
| 2025 | Guided (outfitter) | 12 | 2 | 16.67% | 71 | 8 | 10% |
| 2024 | Resident | 370 | 36 | 9.73% | 1,578 | 68 | 85% |
| 2024 | Nonresident | 48 | 0 | 0.00% | 172 | 4 | 5% |
| 2024 | Guided (outfitter) | 19 | 3 | 15.79% | 93 | 8 | 10% |
| 2023 | Resident | 362 | 26 | 7.18% | 1,605 | 68 | 85% |
| 2023 | Nonresident | 53 | 1 | 1.89% | 208 | 4 | 5% |
| 2023 | Guided (outfitter) | 28 | 7 | 25.00% | 54 | 8 | 10% |
| 2022 | Resident | 213 | 32 | 15.02% | 499 | 59 | 84.29% |
| 2022 | Nonresident | 4 | 1 | 25.00% | 20 | 4 | 5.72% |
| 2022 | Guided (outfitter) | 3 | 3 | 100.00% | 14 | 7 | 10% |
| 2021 | Resident | 218 | 33 | 15.14% | 576 | 60 | 85.71% |
| 2021 | Nonresident | 9 | 1 | 11.11% | 17 | 4 | 5.71% |
| 2021 | Guided (outfitter) | 1 | 1 | 100.00% | 5 | 6 | 8.57% |
| 2020 | Resident | 167 | 32 | 19.16% | 462 | 66 | 94.28% |
| 2020 | Nonresident | 1 | 1 | 100.00% | 8 | 2 | 2.86% |
| 2020 | Guided (outfitter) | 2 | 2 | 100.00% | 0 | 2 | 2.86% |
| 2019 | Resident | 119 | 29 | 24.37% | 429 | 66 | — |
| 2019 | Nonresident | 5 | 3 | 60.00% | 7 | 3 | — |
| 2019 | Guided (outfitter) | 1 | 1 | 100.00% | 0 | 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 | 80 | 80 | 357 | 1,897 |
| 2025 | 80 | 80 | 367 | 1,931 |
| 2024 | 80 | 80 | 437 | 2,280 |
| 2023 | 80 | 80 | 443 | 2,310 |
| 2022 | 70 | 70 | 220 | 753 |
| 2021 | 70 | 70 | 228 | 826 |
| 2020 | 70 | 70 | 170 | 640 |
| 2019 | 70 | 70 | 125 | 561 |
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
- 2022-Complete-Report.xlsx — New Mexico Department of Wildlife, published 2022-04-12, fetched 2026-08-31
- 2021-Big-Game-Drawing-Odds-Complete-Report.xlsx — New Mexico Department of Wildlife, published 2021-04-14, fetched 2026-08-31
- 2020-Drawing-Odds-Complete-Report.xlsx — New Mexico Department of Wildlife, published 2020-08-03, fetched 2026-08-31
- 2019-Drawing-Odds-Complete-Report.xlsx — New Mexico Department of Wildlife, published 2019-06-26, fetched 2026-08-31