New Mexico · Deer · any legal big-game sporting arm
New Mexico deer hunt DER-1-291
Unit 31. 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 2022 draw did
New Mexico offered 460 licences on hunt code DER-1-291 in 2022 and issued 460 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 96 nonresident applicants ranked it first and 16 drew it, 16.67%; 569 resident applicants ranked it first and 184 drew it, 32.34%; 36 guided (outfitter) applicants ranked it first and 34 drew it, 94.44%.
This hunt code stops appearing after 2022. The department's 2026 report does not carry it, and this site does not map a retired code onto a current one — a renumbered hunt is not necessarily the same hunt, and the department has published nothing that says which is which. What is below is the record of the 4 years it was drawn.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Resident | 569 | 184 | 32.34% | 2,237 | 387 | 84.13% |
| 2022 | Nonresident | 96 | 16 | 16.67% | 216 | 27 | 5.87% |
| 2022 | Guided (outfitter) | 36 | 34 | 94.44% | 58 | 46 | 10% |
| 2021 | Resident | 682 | 175 | 25.66% | 2,696 | 401 | 87.17% |
| 2021 | Nonresident | 93 | 12 | 12.90% | 276 | 27 | 5.87% |
| 2021 | Guided (outfitter) | 12 | 12 | 100.00% | 60 | 32 | 6.96% |
| 2020 | Resident | 536 | 192 | 35.82% | 2,161 | 426 | 92.61% |
| 2020 | Nonresident | 69 | 19 | 27.54% | 186 | 27 | 5.87% |
| 2020 | Guided (outfitter) | 7 | 7 | 100.00% | 21 | 7 | 1.52% |
| 2019 | Resident | 518 | 192 | 37.07% | 2,186 | 409 | — |
| 2019 | Nonresident | 79 | 23 | 29.11% | 186 | 28 | — |
| 2019 | Guided (outfitter) | 15 | 15 | 100.00% | 27 | 23 | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 460 | 460 | 701 | 3,212 |
| 2021 | 460 | 460 | 787 | 3,819 |
| 2020 | 460 | 460 | 612 | 2,980 |
| 2019 | 460 | 460 | 612 | 3,011 |
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
- 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