New Mexico · Deer · any legal big-game sporting arm
New Mexico deer hunt DER-1-203
Unit 17: youth only. 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-1-203 in 2026 and issued 80 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 15 nonresident applicants ranked it first and none of them drew it; 222 resident applicants ranked it first and 40 drew it, 18.02%; 9 guided (outfitter) applicants ranked it first and 3 drew it, 33.33%.
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 | 222 | 40 | 18.02% | 419 | 68 | 85% |
| 2026 | Nonresident | 15 | 0 | 0.00% | 59 | 4 | 5% |
| 2026 | Guided (outfitter) | 9 | 3 | 33.33% | 20 | 8 | 10% |
| 2025 | Resident | 217 | 40 | 18.43% | 399 | 68 | 85% |
| 2025 | Nonresident | 20 | 2 | 10.00% | 80 | 4 | 5% |
| 2025 | Guided (outfitter) | 7 | 1 | 14.29% | 39 | 8 | 10% |
| 2024 | Resident | 247 | 33 | 13.36% | 475 | 68 | 85% |
| 2024 | Nonresident | 16 | 0 | 0.00% | 69 | 4 | 5% |
| 2024 | Guided (outfitter) | 15 | 1 | 6.67% | 53 | 8 | 10% |
| 2023 | Resident | 215 | 32 | 14.88% | 489 | 68 | 85% |
| 2023 | Nonresident | 15 | 2 | 13.33% | 58 | 4 | 5% |
| 2023 | Guided (outfitter) | 4 | 2 | 50.00% | 20 | 8 | 10% |
| 2022 | Resident | 70 | 17 | 24.29% | 427 | 65 | 92.86% |
| 2022 | Nonresident | 9 | 2 | 22.22% | 15 | 4 | 5.72% |
| 2022 | Guided (outfitter) | 1 | 1 | 100.00% | 2 | 1 | 1.43% |
| 2021 | Resident | 54 | 19 | 35.19% | 434 | 66 | 94.29% |
| 2021 | Nonresident | 1 | 1 | 100.00% | 25 | 4 | 5.71% |
| 2021 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| 2020 | Resident | 48 | 17 | 35.42% | 305 | 67 | 95.71% |
| 2020 | Nonresident | 4 | 0 | 0.00% | 6 | 1 | 1.43% |
| 2020 | Guided (outfitter) | 1 | 1 | 100.00% | 3 | 2 | 2.86% |
| 2019 | Resident | 51 | 19 | 37.25% | 272 | 66 | — |
| 2019 | Nonresident | 4 | 4 | 100.00% | 10 | 4 | — |
| 2019 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | — |
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 | 246 | 744 |
| 2025 | 80 | 80 | 244 | 762 |
| 2024 | 80 | 80 | 278 | 875 |
| 2023 | 80 | 80 | 234 | 801 |
| 2022 | 70 | 70 | 80 | 524 |
| 2021 | 70 | 70 | 55 | 516 |
| 2020 | 70 | 70 | 53 | 367 |
| 2019 | 70 | 70 | 55 | 338 |
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