New Mexico · Deer · any legal big-game sporting arm
New Mexico deer hunt DER-1-237
Unit 23: except the Burro mountains hunt area. Bag limit FAWTD. 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 55 licences on hunt code DER-1-237 in 2026 and issued 55 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 79 nonresident applicants ranked it first and 1 drew it, 1.27%; 100 resident applicants ranked it first and 33 drew it, 33.00%; 19 guided (outfitter) applicants ranked it first and 2 drew it, 10.53%.
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 | 100 | 33 | 33.00% | 221 | 47 | 85.45% |
| 2026 | Nonresident | 79 | 1 | 1.27% | 200 | 3 | 5.46% |
| 2026 | Guided (outfitter) | 19 | 2 | 10.53% | 116 | 5 | 9.09% |
| 2025 | Resident | 96 | 27 | 28.13% | 264 | 47 | 85.46% |
| 2025 | Nonresident | 73 | 1 | 1.37% | 225 | 3 | 5.45% |
| 2025 | Guided (outfitter) | 22 | 2 | 9.09% | 110 | 5 | 9.09% |
| 2024 | Resident | 92 | 24 | 26.09% | 217 | 47 | 85.45% |
| 2024 | Nonresident | 60 | 1 | 1.67% | 185 | 3 | 5.46% |
| 2024 | Guided (outfitter) | 18 | 1 | 5.56% | 89 | 5 | 9.09% |
| 2023 | Resident | 109 | 27 | 24.77% | 256 | 47 | 85.45% |
| 2023 | Nonresident | 69 | 1 | 1.45% | 182 | 3 | 5.45% |
| 2023 | Guided (outfitter) | 24 | 4 | 16.67% | 76 | 5 | 9.1% |
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 | 55 | 55 | 198 | 735 |
| 2025 | 55 | 55 | 191 | 790 |
| 2024 | 55 | 55 | 170 | 661 |
| 2023 | 55 | 55 | 202 | 716 |
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