New Mexico · Deer · any legal big-game sporting arm
New Mexico deer hunt DER-1-238
Unit 23: except the Burro mountains hunt area, 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 75 licences on hunt code DER-1-238 in 2026 and issued 75 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 15 nonresident applicants ranked it first and 1 drew it, 6.67%; 49 resident applicants ranked it first and 28 drew it, 57.14%; 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 | 49 | 28 | 57.14% | 161 | 63 | 84% |
| 2026 | Nonresident | 15 | 1 | 6.67% | 29 | 5 | 6.67% |
| 2026 | Guided (outfitter) | 1 | 1 | 100.00% | 11 | 7 | 9.33% |
| 2025 | Resident | 56 | 27 | 48.21% | 164 | 63 | 84% |
| 2025 | Nonresident | 14 | 3 | 21.43% | 33 | 5 | 6.67% |
| 2025 | Guided (outfitter) | 2 | 1 | 50.00% | 23 | 7 | 9.33% |
| 2024 | Resident | 46 | 23 | 50.00% | 175 | 63 | 84% |
| 2024 | Nonresident | 12 | 1 | 8.33% | 39 | 5 | 6.67% |
| 2024 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 16 | 7 | 9.33% |
| 2023 | Resident | 43 | 27 | 62.79% | 126 | 63 | 84% |
| 2023 | Nonresident | 7 | 1 | 14.29% | 26 | 5 | 6.67% |
| 2023 | Guided (outfitter) | 5 | 4 | 80.00% | 10 | 7 | 9.33% |
| 2022 | Resident | 335 | 29 | 8.66% | 412 | 30 | 85.71% |
| 2022 | Nonresident | 46 | 0 | 0.00% | 51 | 2 | 5.72% |
| 2022 | Guided (outfitter) | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | 13 | 3 | 8.57% |
| 2021 | Resident | 359 | 30 | 8.36% | 465 | 30 | 85.71% |
| 2021 | Nonresident | 48 | 2 | 4.17% | 41 | 2 | 5.71% |
| 2021 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 6 | 3 | 8.57% |
| 2020 | Resident | 293 | 25 | 8.53% | 319 | 30 | 85.72% |
| 2020 | Nonresident | 29 | 2 | 6.90% | 40 | 2 | 5.71% |
| 2020 | Guided (outfitter) | 7 | 3 | 42.86% | 6 | 3 | 8.57% |
| 2019 | Resident | 305 | 30 | 9.84% | 310 | 32 | — |
| 2019 | Nonresident | 21 | 1 | 4.76% | 25 | 2 | — |
| 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 | 75 | 75 | 65 | 266 |
| 2025 | 75 | 75 | 72 | 292 |
| 2024 | 75 | 75 | 58 | 288 |
| 2023 | 75 | 75 | 55 | 217 |
| 2022 | 35 | 35 | 382 | 858 |
| 2021 | 35 | 35 | 407 | 919 |
| 2020 | 35 | 35 | 329 | 694 |
| 2019 | 35 | 35 | 326 | 662 |
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