New Mexico · Deer · any legal big-game sporting arm
New Mexico deer hunt DER-1-384
Unit 49. 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 100 licences on hunt code DER-1-384 in 2026 and issued 100 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 19 nonresident applicants ranked it first and 4 drew it, 21.05%; 252 resident applicants ranked it first and 34 drew it, 13.49%; 7 guided (outfitter) applicants ranked it first and 3 drew it, 42.86%.
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 | 252 | 34 | 13.49% | 1,082 | 84 | 84% |
| 2026 | Nonresident | 19 | 4 | 21.05% | 87 | 6 | 6% |
| 2026 | Guided (outfitter) | 7 | 3 | 42.86% | 25 | 10 | 10% |
| 2025 | Resident | 278 | 46 | 16.55% | 1,131 | 84 | 84% |
| 2025 | Nonresident | 28 | 1 | 3.57% | 97 | 6 | 6% |
| 2025 | Guided (outfitter) | 8 | 5 | 62.50% | 19 | 10 | 10% |
| 2024 | Resident | 234 | 31 | 13.25% | 1,099 | 87 | 87% |
| 2024 | Nonresident | 25 | 3 | 12.00% | 111 | 6 | 6% |
| 2024 | Guided (outfitter) | 3 | 3 | 100.00% | 16 | 7 | 7% |
| 2023 | Resident | 216 | 39 | 18.06% | 1,047 | 92 | 92% |
| 2023 | Nonresident | 7 | 3 | 42.86% | 49 | 6 | 6% |
| 2023 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 7 | 2 | 2% |
| 2022 | Resident | 352 | 49 | 13.92% | 1,015 | 81 | 90% |
| 2022 | Nonresident | 26 | 3 | 11.54% | 67 | 5 | 5.56% |
| 2022 | Guided (outfitter) | 4 | 4 | 100.00% | 7 | 4 | 4.44% |
| 2021 | Resident | 408 | 56 | 13.73% | 1,039 | 77 | 85.56% |
| 2021 | Nonresident | 15 | 5 | 33.33% | 36 | 5 | 5.56% |
| 2021 | Guided (outfitter) | 2 | 2 | 100.00% | 8 | 8 | 8.89% |
| 2020 | Resident | 297 | 51 | 17.17% | 771 | 77 | 85.55% |
| 2020 | Nonresident | 17 | 1 | 5.88% | 35 | 5 | 5.56% |
| 2020 | Guided (outfitter) | 5 | 3 | 60.00% | 7 | 8 | 8.89% |
| 2019 | Resident | 376 | 65 | 17.29% | 764 | 82 | — |
| 2019 | Nonresident | 14 | 4 | 28.57% | 41 | 5 | — |
| 2019 | Guided (outfitter) | 2 | 2 | 100.00% | 4 | 3 | — |
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 | 100 | 100 | 278 | 1,472 |
| 2025 | 100 | 100 | 314 | 1,561 |
| 2024 | 100 | 100 | 262 | 1,488 |
| 2023 | 100 | 100 | 223 | 1,326 |
| 2022 | 90 | 90 | 382 | 1,471 |
| 2021 | 90 | 90 | 425 | 1,508 |
| 2020 | 90 | 90 | 319 | 1,132 |
| 2019 | 90 | 90 | 392 | 1,201 |
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