New Mexico · Deer · any legal big-game sporting arm
New Mexico deer hunt DER-1-217
Unit 20. 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 90 licences on hunt code DER-1-217 in 2026 and issued 90 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 12 nonresident applicants ranked it first and 3 drew it, 25.00%; 73 resident applicants ranked it first and 22 drew it, 30.14%; 1 guided (outfitter) applicant ranked it first and 1 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 | 73 | 22 | 30.14% | 566 | 77 | 85.56% |
| 2026 | Nonresident | 12 | 3 | 25.00% | 29 | 5 | 5.56% |
| 2026 | Guided (outfitter) | 1 | 1 | 100.00% | 17 | 8 | 8.88% |
| 2025 | Resident | 81 | 17 | 20.99% | 613 | 76 | 84.44% |
| 2025 | Nonresident | 15 | 0 | 0.00% | 46 | 5 | 5.56% |
| 2025 | Guided (outfitter) | 4 | 4 | 100.00% | 19 | 9 | 10% |
| 2024 | Resident | 86 | 20 | 23.26% | 569 | 76 | 84.44% |
| 2024 | Nonresident | 7 | 0 | 0.00% | 40 | 5 | 5.56% |
| 2024 | Guided (outfitter) | 6 | 1 | 16.67% | 22 | 9 | 10% |
| 2023 | Resident | 65 | 14 | 21.54% | 567 | 80 | 88.88% |
| 2023 | Nonresident | 7 | 2 | 28.57% | 19 | 5 | 5.56% |
| 2023 | Guided (outfitter) | 1 | 1 | 100.00% | 8 | 5 | 5.56% |
| 2022 | Resident | 60 | 29 | 48.33% | 260 | 94 | 94% |
| 2022 | Nonresident | 5 | 1 | 20.00% | 18 | 6 | 6% |
| 2022 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| 2021 | Resident | 58 | 32 | 55.17% | 244 | 92 | 92% |
| 2021 | Nonresident | 3 | 0 | 0.00% | 13 | 6 | 6% |
| 2021 | Guided (outfitter) | 1 | 1 | 100.00% | 3 | 2 | 2% |
| 2020 | Resident | 51 | 37 | 72.55% | 220 | 93 | 93% |
| 2020 | Nonresident | 5 | 4 | 80.00% | 7 | 6 | 6% |
| 2020 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 4 | 1 | 1% |
| 2019 | Resident | 57 | 32 | 56.14% | 234 | 93 | — |
| 2019 | Nonresident | 8 | 3 | 37.50% | 5 | 6 | — |
| 2019 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | 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 | 90 | 90 | 86 | 698 |
| 2025 | 90 | 90 | 100 | 778 |
| 2024 | 90 | 90 | 99 | 730 |
| 2023 | 90 | 90 | 73 | 667 |
| 2022 | 100 | 100 | 65 | 345 |
| 2021 | 100 | 100 | 62 | 322 |
| 2020 | 100 | 100 | 56 | 287 |
| 2019 | 100 | 100 | 65 | 305 |
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