New Mexico · Deer · any legal big-game sporting arm
New Mexico deer hunt DER-1-327
Unit 36. 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 300 licences on hunt code DER-1-327 in 2026 and issued 300 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 44 nonresident applicants ranked it first and 10 drew it, 22.73%; 298 resident applicants ranked it first and 104 drew it, 34.90%; 9 guided (outfitter) applicants ranked it first and 9 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 | 298 | 104 | 34.90% | 1,411 | 267 | 89% |
| 2026 | Nonresident | 44 | 10 | 22.73% | 212 | 18 | 6% |
| 2026 | Guided (outfitter) | 9 | 9 | 100.00% | 36 | 15 | 5% |
| 2025 | Resident | 286 | 120 | 41.96% | 1,366 | 267 | 89% |
| 2025 | Nonresident | 47 | 5 | 10.64% | 173 | 18 | 6% |
| 2025 | Guided (outfitter) | 9 | 9 | 100.00% | 30 | 15 | 5% |
| 2024 | Resident | 362 | 119 | 32.87% | 1,408 | 267 | 89% |
| 2024 | Nonresident | 47 | 5 | 10.64% | 177 | 18 | 6% |
| 2024 | Guided (outfitter) | 10 | 10 | 100.00% | 24 | 15 | 5% |
| 2023 | Resident | 325 | 116 | 35.69% | 1,455 | 265 | 88.33% |
| 2023 | Nonresident | 39 | 6 | 15.38% | 181 | 18 | 6% |
| 2023 | Guided (outfitter) | 9 | 9 | 100.00% | 31 | 17 | 5.67% |
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 | 300 | 300 | 351 | 2,010 |
| 2025 | 300 | 300 | 342 | 1,911 |
| 2024 | 300 | 300 | 419 | 2,028 |
| 2023 | 300 | 300 | 373 | 2,040 |
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