New Mexico · Deer · any legal big-game sporting arm
New Mexico deer hunt DER-1-254
Unit 24: excluding Fort Bayard management area. Bag limit FAMD. 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 400 licences on hunt code DER-1-254 in 2026 and issued 400 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 68 nonresident applicants ranked it first and 15 drew it, 22.06%; 474 resident applicants ranked it first and 225 drew it, 47.47%; 11 guided (outfitter) applicants ranked it first and 11 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 | 474 | 225 | 47.47% | 876 | 361 | 90.25% |
| 2026 | Nonresident | 68 | 15 | 22.06% | 105 | 24 | 6% |
| 2026 | Guided (outfitter) | 11 | 11 | 100.00% | 16 | 15 | 3.75% |
| 2025 | Resident | 581 | 244 | 42.00% | 818 | 367 | 91.75% |
| 2025 | Nonresident | 49 | 9 | 18.37% | 118 | 24 | 6% |
| 2025 | Guided (outfitter) | 8 | 8 | 100.00% | 5 | 9 | 2.25% |
| 2024 | Resident | 536 | 240 | 44.78% | 826 | 364 | 91% |
| 2024 | Nonresident | 56 | 16 | 28.57% | 93 | 24 | 6% |
| 2024 | Guided (outfitter) | 7 | 7 | 100.00% | 13 | 12 | 3% |
| 2023 | Resident | 571 | 235 | 41.16% | 854 | 368 | 92% |
| 2023 | Nonresident | 61 | 16 | 26.23% | 89 | 24 | 6% |
| 2023 | Guided (outfitter) | 8 | 8 | 100.00% | 2 | 8 | 2% |
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 | 400 | 400 | 553 | 1,550 |
| 2025 | 400 | 400 | 638 | 1,579 |
| 2024 | 400 | 400 | 599 | 1,531 |
| 2023 | 400 | 400 | 640 | 1,585 |
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