New Mexico · Deer · any legal big-game sporting arm
New Mexico deer hunt DER-1-371
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-1-371 in 2026 and issued 250 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 87 nonresident applicants ranked it first and 8 drew it, 9.20%; 641 resident applicants ranked it first and 116 drew it, 18.10%; 27 guided (outfitter) applicants ranked it first and 11 drew it, 40.74%.
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 | 641 | 116 | 18.10% | 2,151 | 210 | 84% |
| 2026 | Nonresident | 87 | 8 | 9.20% | 185 | 15 | 6% |
| 2026 | Guided (outfitter) | 27 | 11 | 40.74% | 112 | 25 | 10% |
| 2025 | Resident | 419 | 98 | 23.39% | 2,022 | 210 | 84% |
| 2025 | Nonresident | 48 | 9 | 18.75% | 189 | 15 | 6% |
| 2025 | Guided (outfitter) | 15 | 9 | 60.00% | 61 | 25 | 10% |
| 2024 | Resident | 492 | 91 | 18.50% | 1,884 | 215 | 86% |
| 2024 | Nonresident | 31 | 4 | 12.90% | 149 | 15 | 6% |
| 2024 | Guided (outfitter) | 3 | 3 | 100.00% | 27 | 20 | 8% |
| 2023 | Resident | 527 | 102 | 19.35% | 1,940 | 224 | 89.6% |
| 2023 | Nonresident | 51 | 13 | 25.49% | 147 | 15 | 6% |
| 2023 | Guided (outfitter) | 4 | 4 | 100.00% | 9 | 11 | 4.4% |
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 | 250 | 250 | 755 | 3,203 |
| 2025 | 250 | 250 | 482 | 2,754 |
| 2024 | 250 | 250 | 526 | 2,586 |
| 2023 | 250 | 250 | 582 | 2,678 |
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