New Mexico · Deer · any legal big-game sporting arm
New Mexico deer hunt DER-1-369
Unit 45. 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 250 licences on hunt code DER-1-369 in 2026 and issued 250 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 86 nonresident applicants ranked it first and 10 drew it, 11.63%; 981 resident applicants ranked it first and 141 drew it, 14.37%; 61 guided (outfitter) applicants ranked it first and 15 drew it, 24.59%.
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 | 981 | 141 | 14.37% | 1,713 | 210 | 84% |
| 2026 | Nonresident | 86 | 10 | 11.63% | 170 | 15 | 6% |
| 2026 | Guided (outfitter) | 61 | 15 | 24.59% | 127 | 25 | 10% |
| 2025 | Resident | 1,115 | 159 | 14.26% | 1,795 | 210 | 84% |
| 2025 | Nonresident | 75 | 6 | 8.00% | 156 | 15 | 6% |
| 2025 | Guided (outfitter) | 18 | 9 | 50.00% | 53 | 25 | 10% |
| 2024 | Resident | 994 | 167 | 16.80% | 1,641 | 228 | 91.2% |
| 2024 | Nonresident | 69 | 8 | 11.59% | 120 | 15 | 6% |
| 2024 | Guided (outfitter) | 3 | 3 | 100.00% | 16 | 7 | 2.8% |
| 2023 | Resident | 852 | 163 | 19.13% | 1,680 | 232 | 92.8% |
| 2023 | Nonresident | 72 | 12 | 16.67% | 133 | 15 | 6% |
| 2023 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 13 | 3 | 1.2% |
| 2022 | Resident | 192 | 28 | 14.58% | 324 | 38 | 95% |
| 2022 | Nonresident | 16 | 1 | 6.25% | 16 | 2 | 5% |
| 2022 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| 2021 | Resident | 204 | 31 | 15.20% | 340 | 38 | 95% |
| 2021 | Nonresident | 13 | 2 | 15.38% | 11 | 2 | 5% |
| 2021 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| 2020 | Resident | 155 | 29 | 18.71% | 250 | 38 | 95% |
| 2020 | Nonresident | 7 | 1 | 14.29% | 9 | 2 | 5% |
| 2020 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| 2019 | Resident | 125 | 28 | 22.40% | 223 | 37 | — |
| 2019 | Nonresident | 7 | 0 | 0.00% | 3 | 2 | — |
| 2019 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | 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 | 250 | 250 | 1,128 | 3,138 |
| 2025 | 250 | 250 | 1,208 | 3,212 |
| 2024 | 250 | 250 | 1,066 | 2,843 |
| 2023 | 250 | 250 | 924 | 2,750 |
| 2022 | 40 | 40 | 208 | 548 |
| 2021 | 40 | 40 | 217 | 568 |
| 2020 | 40 | 40 | 162 | 424 |
| 2019 | 40 | 40 | 132 | 359 |
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