New Mexico · Deer · any legal big-game sporting arm
New Mexico deer hunt DER-1-229
Unit 22. 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 70 licences on hunt code DER-1-229 in 2026 and issued 70 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 19 nonresident applicants ranked it first and 2 drew it, 10.53%; 54 resident applicants ranked it first and 30 drew it, 55.56%; 2 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 | 54 | 30 | 55.56% | 219 | 59 | 84.29% |
| 2026 | Nonresident | 19 | 2 | 10.53% | 48 | 4 | 5.71% |
| 2026 | Guided (outfitter) | 2 | 0 | 0.00% | 57 | 7 | 10% |
| 2025 | Resident | 29 | 19 | 65.52% | 151 | 59 | 84.29% |
| 2025 | Nonresident | 17 | 2 | 11.76% | 33 | 4 | 5.71% |
| 2025 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 12 | 7 | 10% |
| 2024 | Resident | 29 | 16 | 55.17% | 168 | 59 | 84.29% |
| 2024 | Nonresident | 7 | 2 | 28.57% | 71 | 4 | 5.71% |
| 2024 | Guided (outfitter) | 8 | 5 | 62.50% | 24 | 7 | 10% |
| 2023 | Resident | 26 | 10 | 38.46% | 166 | 59 | 84.29% |
| 2023 | Nonresident | 14 | 2 | 14.29% | 45 | 4 | 5.71% |
| 2023 | Guided (outfitter) | 6 | 6 | 100.00% | 16 | 7 | 10% |
| 2022 | Resident | 74 | 46 | 62.16% | 288 | 84 | 84% |
| 2022 | Nonresident | 39 | 1 | 2.56% | 109 | 6 | 6% |
| 2022 | Guided (outfitter) | 5 | 1 | 20.00% | 46 | 10 | 10% |
| 2021 | Resident | 73 | 36 | 49.32% | 279 | 84 | 84% |
| 2021 | Nonresident | 49 | 3 | 6.12% | 132 | 6 | 6% |
| 2021 | Guided (outfitter) | 2 | 2 | 100.00% | 20 | 10 | 10% |
| 2020 | Resident | 71 | 41 | 57.75% | 196 | 85 | 85% |
| 2020 | Nonresident | 41 | 3 | 7.32% | 71 | 6 | 6% |
| 2020 | Guided (outfitter) | 2 | 2 | 100.00% | 14 | 9 | 9% |
| 2019 | Resident | 39 | 28 | 71.79% | 214 | 93 | — |
| 2019 | Nonresident | 38 | 4 | 10.53% | 65 | 6 | — |
| 2019 | Guided (outfitter) | 1 | 1 | 100.00% | 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 | 70 | 70 | 75 | 399 |
| 2025 | 70 | 70 | 46 | 242 |
| 2024 | 70 | 70 | 44 | 307 |
| 2023 | 70 | 70 | 46 | 273 |
| 2022 | 100 | 100 | 118 | 561 |
| 2021 | 100 | 100 | 124 | 555 |
| 2020 | 100 | 100 | 114 | 395 |
| 2019 | 100 | 100 | 78 | 358 |
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