New Mexico · Deer · any legal big-game sporting arm
New Mexico deer hunt DER-1-394
Unit 52. 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 90 licences on hunt code DER-1-394 in 2026 and issued 90 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 28 nonresident applicants ranked it first and 4 drew it, 14.29%; 398 resident applicants ranked it first and 47 drew it, 11.81%; 15 guided (outfitter) applicants ranked it first and 7 drew it, 46.67%.
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 | 398 | 47 | 11.81% | 1,069 | 76 | 84.44% |
| 2026 | Nonresident | 28 | 4 | 14.29% | 100 | 5 | 5.56% |
| 2026 | Guided (outfitter) | 15 | 7 | 46.67% | 21 | 9 | 10% |
| 2025 | Resident | 437 | 57 | 13.04% | 1,123 | 76 | 84.44% |
| 2025 | Nonresident | 56 | 4 | 7.14% | 96 | 5 | 5.56% |
| 2025 | Guided (outfitter) | 11 | 7 | 63.64% | 27 | 9 | 10% |
| 2024 | Resident | 355 | 47 | 13.24% | 981 | 78 | 86.67% |
| 2024 | Nonresident | 37 | 1 | 2.70% | 119 | 5 | 5.55% |
| 2024 | Guided (outfitter) | 7 | 7 | 100.00% | 14 | 7 | 7.78% |
| 2023 | Resident | 406 | 65 | 16.01% | 1,021 | 82 | 91.11% |
| 2023 | Nonresident | 47 | 5 | 10.64% | 77 | 5 | 5.56% |
| 2023 | Guided (outfitter) | 3 | 3 | 100.00% | 8 | 3 | 3.33% |
| 2022 | Resident | 43 | 4 | 9.30% | 53 | 5 | 100% |
| 2022 | Nonresident | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| 2022 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| 2021 | Resident | 41 | 5 | 12.20% | 69 | 5 | 100% |
| 2021 | Nonresident | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| 2021 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| 2020 | Resident | 12 | 3 | 25.00% | 56 | 5 | 100% |
| 2020 | Nonresident | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| 2020 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| 2019 | Resident | 27 | 5 | 18.52% | 35 | 5 | — |
| 2019 | Nonresident | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | 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 | 90 | 90 | 441 | 1,631 |
| 2025 | 90 | 90 | 504 | 1,750 |
| 2024 | 90 | 90 | 399 | 1,513 |
| 2023 | 90 | 90 | 456 | 1,562 |
| 2022 | 5 | 5 | 43 | 96 |
| 2021 | 5 | 5 | 41 | 110 |
| 2020 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 68 |
| 2019 | 5 | 5 | 27 | 63 |
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