New Mexico · Deer · any legal big-game sporting arm
New Mexico deer hunt DER-1-270
Unit 26. 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 100 licences on hunt code DER-1-270 in 2026 and issued 100 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 15 nonresident applicants ranked it first and 2 drew it, 13.33%; 83 resident applicants ranked it first and 50 drew it, 60.24%; 5 guided (outfitter) applicants ranked it first and 5 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 | 83 | 50 | 60.24% | 200 | 86 | 86% |
| 2026 | Nonresident | 15 | 2 | 13.33% | 29 | 6 | 6% |
| 2026 | Guided (outfitter) | 5 | 5 | 100.00% | 3 | 8 | 8% |
| 2025 | Resident | 110 | 55 | 50.00% | 269 | 84 | 84% |
| 2025 | Nonresident | 20 | 6 | 30.00% | 28 | 6 | 6% |
| 2025 | Guided (outfitter) | 7 | 7 | 100.00% | 3 | 10 | 10% |
| 2024 | Resident | 117 | 51 | 43.59% | 249 | 92 | 92% |
| 2024 | Nonresident | 21 | 5 | 23.81% | 26 | 6 | 6% |
| 2024 | Guided (outfitter) | 2 | 2 | 100.00% | 2 | 2 | 2% |
| 2023 | Resident | 128 | 56 | 43.75% | 259 | 84 | 84% |
| 2023 | Nonresident | 18 | 3 | 16.67% | 26 | 6 | 6% |
| 2023 | Guided (outfitter) | 6 | 6 | 100.00% | 9 | 10 | 10% |
| 2022 | Resident | 85 | 20 | 23.53% | 147 | 34 | 85% |
| 2022 | Nonresident | 54 | 2 | 3.70% | 98 | 2 | 5% |
| 2022 | Guided (outfitter) | 19 | 3 | 15.79% | 31 | 4 | 10% |
| 2021 | Resident | 63 | 16 | 25.40% | 126 | 34 | 85% |
| 2021 | Nonresident | 39 | 1 | 2.56% | 90 | 2 | 5% |
| 2021 | Guided (outfitter) | 14 | 2 | 14.29% | 24 | 4 | 10% |
| 2020 | Resident | 73 | 20 | 27.40% | 135 | 34 | 85% |
| 2020 | Nonresident | 32 | 1 | 3.13% | 77 | 2 | 5% |
| 2020 | Guided (outfitter) | 8 | 2 | 25.00% | 9 | 4 | 10% |
| 2019 | Resident | 48 | 14 | 29.17% | 128 | 34 | — |
| 2019 | Nonresident | 23 | 1 | 4.35% | 59 | 2 | — |
| 2019 | Guided (outfitter) | 3 | 0 | 0.00% | 12 | 4 | — |
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 | 100 | 100 | 103 | 335 |
| 2025 | 100 | 100 | 137 | 437 |
| 2024 | 100 | 100 | 140 | 417 |
| 2023 | 100 | 100 | 152 | 446 |
| 2022 | 40 | 40 | 158 | 434 |
| 2021 | 40 | 40 | 116 | 356 |
| 2020 | 40 | 40 | 113 | 334 |
| 2019 | 40 | 40 | 74 | 273 |
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