New Mexico · Deer · any legal big-game sporting arm
New Mexico deer hunt DER-1-379
Unit 48. 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 50 licences on hunt code DER-1-379 in 2026 and issued 50 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 20 nonresident applicants ranked it first and 3 drew it, 15.00%; 212 resident applicants ranked it first and 39 drew it, 18.40%; 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 | 212 | 39 | 18.40% | 357 | 44 | 88% |
| 2026 | Nonresident | 20 | 3 | 15.00% | 25 | 3 | 6% |
| 2026 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 9 | 3 | 6% |
| 2025 | Resident | 222 | 34 | 15.32% | 407 | 46 | 92% |
| 2025 | Nonresident | 10 | 3 | 30.00% | 29 | 3 | 6% |
| 2025 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 2 | 1 | 2% |
| 2024 | Resident | 222 | 39 | 17.57% | 374 | 44 | 88% |
| 2024 | Nonresident | 14 | 3 | 21.43% | 17 | 3 | 6% |
| 2024 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 3 | 3 | 6% |
| 2023 | Resident | 183 | 28 | 15.30% | 337 | 47 | 94% |
| 2023 | Nonresident | 12 | 2 | 16.67% | 14 | 3 | 6% |
| 2023 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| 2022 | Resident | 799 | 101 | 12.64% | 1,580 | 134 | 92.41% |
| 2022 | Nonresident | 24 | 6 | 25.00% | 69 | 9 | 6.21% |
| 2022 | Guided (outfitter) | 2 | 2 | 100.00% | 8 | 2 | 1.38% |
| 2021 | Resident | 865 | 97 | 11.21% | 1,613 | 130 | 89.66% |
| 2021 | Nonresident | 28 | 6 | 21.43% | 59 | 9 | 6.21% |
| 2021 | Guided (outfitter) | 1 | 1 | 100.00% | 9 | 6 | 4.14% |
| 2020 | Resident | 592 | 96 | 16.22% | 1,184 | 136 | 93.79% |
| 2020 | Nonresident | 9 | 3 | 33.33% | 43 | 9 | 6.21% |
| 2020 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| 2019 | Resident | 653 | 102 | 15.62% | 1,132 | 135 | — |
| 2019 | Nonresident | 8 | 5 | 62.50% | 26 | 9 | — |
| 2019 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 5 | 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 | 50 | 50 | 232 | 623 |
| 2025 | 50 | 50 | 232 | 670 |
| 2024 | 50 | 50 | 236 | 630 |
| 2023 | 50 | 50 | 195 | 546 |
| 2022 | 145 | 145 | 825 | 2,482 |
| 2021 | 145 | 145 | 894 | 2,575 |
| 2020 | 145 | 145 | 601 | 1,828 |
| 2019 | 145 | 145 | 661 | 1,824 |
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