New Mexico · Deer · any legal big-game sporting arm
New Mexico deer hunt DER-1-255
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-1-255 in 2026 and issued 400 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 15 nonresident applicants ranked it first and 3 drew it, 20.00%; 130 resident applicants ranked it first and 109 drew it, 83.85%; 10 guided (outfitter) applicants ranked it first and 10 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 | 130 | 109 | 83.85% | 668 | 364 | 91% |
| 2026 | Nonresident | 15 | 3 | 20.00% | 116 | 24 | 6% |
| 2026 | Guided (outfitter) | 10 | 10 | 100.00% | 5 | 12 | 3% |
| 2025 | Resident | 73 | 65 | 89.04% | 677 | 370 | 92.5% |
| 2025 | Nonresident | 32 | 8 | 25.00% | 113 | 24 | 6% |
| 2025 | Guided (outfitter) | 3 | 3 | 100.00% | 7 | 6 | 1.5% |
| 2024 | Resident | 114 | 91 | 79.82% | 773 | 373 | 93.25% |
| 2024 | Nonresident | 28 | 16 | 57.14% | 121 | 24 | 6% |
| 2024 | Guided (outfitter) | 3 | 3 | 100.00% | 7 | 3 | 0.75% |
| 2023 | Resident | 94 | 75 | 79.79% | 751 | 367 | 91.75% |
| 2023 | Nonresident | 22 | 7 | 31.82% | 101 | 24 | 6% |
| 2023 | Guided (outfitter) | 9 | 9 | 100.00% | 1 | 9 | 2.25% |
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 | 155 | 944 |
| 2025 | 400 | 400 | 108 | 905 |
| 2024 | 400 | 400 | 145 | 1,046 |
| 2023 | 400 | 400 | 125 | 978 |
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