New Mexico · Deer · any legal big-game sporting arm
New Mexico deer hunt DER-1-258
Unit 24: excluding Fort Bayard management 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 50 licences on hunt code DER-1-258 in 2026 and issued 50 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 36 nonresident applicants ranked it first and 1 drew it, 2.78%; 100 resident applicants ranked it first and 31 drew it, 31.00%; 25 guided (outfitter) applicants ranked it first and 1 drew it, 4.00%.
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 | 100 | 31 | 31.00% | 258 | 42 | 84% |
| 2026 | Nonresident | 36 | 1 | 2.78% | 132 | 3 | 6% |
| 2026 | Guided (outfitter) | 25 | 1 | 4.00% | 119 | 5 | 10% |
| 2025 | Resident | 68 | 19 | 27.94% | 217 | 42 | 84% |
| 2025 | Nonresident | 47 | 2 | 4.26% | 145 | 3 | 6% |
| 2025 | Guided (outfitter) | 5 | 0 | 0.00% | 71 | 5 | 10% |
| 2024 | Resident | 76 | 26 | 34.21% | 210 | 42 | 84% |
| 2024 | Nonresident | 43 | 1 | 2.33% | 132 | 3 | 6% |
| 2024 | Guided (outfitter) | 15 | 1 | 6.67% | 53 | 5 | 10% |
| 2023 | Resident | 68 | 28 | 41.18% | 212 | 42 | 84% |
| 2023 | Nonresident | 46 | 3 | 6.52% | 116 | 3 | 6% |
| 2023 | Guided (outfitter) | 9 | 1 | 11.11% | 54 | 5 | 10% |
| 2022 | Resident | 331 | 80 | 24.17% | 411 | 91 | 91% |
| 2022 | Nonresident | 27 | 6 | 22.22% | 21 | 6 | 6% |
| 2022 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 3 | 3 | 3% |
| 2021 | Resident | 422 | 79 | 18.72% | 529 | 94 | 94% |
| 2021 | Nonresident | 35 | 6 | 17.14% | 33 | 6 | 6% |
| 2021 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| 2020 | Resident | 269 | 77 | 28.62% | 377 | 94 | 94% |
| 2020 | Nonresident | 20 | 6 | 30.00% | 16 | 6 | 6% |
| 2020 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| 2019 | Resident | 246 | 75 | 30.49% | 304 | 92 | — |
| 2019 | Nonresident | 14 | 6 | 42.86% | 13 | 7 | — |
| 2019 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 2 | 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 | 50 | 50 | 161 | 670 |
| 2025 | 50 | 50 | 120 | 553 |
| 2024 | 50 | 50 | 134 | 529 |
| 2023 | 50 | 50 | 123 | 505 |
| 2022 | 100 | 100 | 358 | 793 |
| 2021 | 100 | 100 | 457 | 1,019 |
| 2020 | 100 | 100 | 289 | 682 |
| 2019 | 100 | 100 | 260 | 579 |
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