New Mexico · Deer · any legal big-game sporting arm
New Mexico deer hunt DER-1-361
Unit 42. 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 40 licences on hunt code DER-1-361 in 2026 and issued 40 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 5 nonresident applicants ranked it first and 2 drew it, 40.00%; 45 resident applicants ranked it first and 22 drew it, 48.89%; no guided (outfitter) applicant ranked it first.
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 | 45 | 22 | 48.89% | 65 | 38 | 95% |
| 2026 | Nonresident | 5 | 2 | 40.00% | 6 | 2 | 5% |
| 2026 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| 2025 | Resident | 47 | 17 | 36.17% | 104 | 38 | 95% |
| 2025 | Nonresident | 4 | 2 | 50.00% | 9 | 2 | 5% |
| 2025 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| 2024 | Resident | 40 | 22 | 55.00% | 61 | 36 | 90% |
| 2024 | Nonresident | 3 | 1 | 33.33% | 8 | 2 | 5% |
| 2024 | Guided (outfitter) | 2 | 2 | 100.00% | 0 | 2 | 5% |
| 2023 | Resident | 47 | 22 | 46.81% | 122 | 38 | 95% |
| 2023 | Nonresident | 6 | 2 | 33.33% | 10 | 2 | 5% |
| 2023 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| 2022 | Resident | 433 | 112 | 25.87% | 1,849 | 231 | 92.4% |
| 2022 | Nonresident | 16 | 7 | 43.75% | 101 | 15 | 6% |
| 2022 | Guided (outfitter) | 2 | 2 | 100.00% | 15 | 4 | 1.6% |
| 2021 | Resident | 481 | 104 | 21.62% | 1,935 | 235 | 94% |
| 2021 | Nonresident | 30 | 6 | 20.00% | 91 | 15 | 6% |
| 2021 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| 2020 | Resident | 347 | 86 | 24.78% | 1,454 | 231 | 92.4% |
| 2020 | Nonresident | 10 | 7 | 70.00% | 55 | 15 | 6% |
| 2020 | Guided (outfitter) | 4 | 4 | 100.00% | 1 | 4 | 1.6% |
| 2019 | Resident | 256 | 79 | 30.86% | 1,379 | 238 | — |
| 2019 | Nonresident | 5 | 5 | 100.00% | 25 | 12 | — |
| 2019 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — |
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 | 40 | 40 | 50 | 121 |
| 2025 | 40 | 40 | 51 | 164 |
| 2024 | 40 | 40 | 45 | 114 |
| 2023 | 40 | 40 | 53 | 185 |
| 2022 | 250 | 250 | 451 | 2,416 |
| 2021 | 250 | 250 | 511 | 2,539 |
| 2020 | 250 | 250 | 361 | 1,871 |
| 2019 | 250 | 250 | 261 | 1,665 |
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