New Mexico · Deer · bow only
New Mexico deer hunt DER-2-219
Unit 20. 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 25 licences on hunt code DER-2-219 in 2026 and issued 25 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 17 nonresident applicants ranked it first and 2 drew it, 11.76%; 100 resident applicants ranked it first and 18 drew it, 18.00%; 1 guided (outfitter) applicant ranked it first and 1 drew it, 100.00%.
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 | 100 | 18 | 18.00% | 159 | 21 | 84% |
| 2026 | Nonresident | 17 | 2 | 11.76% | 31 | 2 | 8% |
| 2026 | Guided (outfitter) | 1 | 1 | 100.00% | 6 | 2 | 8% |
| 2025 | Resident | 79 | 15 | 18.99% | 140 | 21 | 84% |
| 2025 | Nonresident | 10 | 1 | 10.00% | 19 | 2 | 8% |
| 2025 | Guided (outfitter) | 5 | 1 | 20.00% | 16 | 2 | 8% |
| 2024 | Resident | 77 | 18 | 23.38% | 155 | 21 | 84% |
| 2024 | Nonresident | 4 | 0 | 0.00% | 25 | 2 | 8% |
| 2024 | Guided (outfitter) | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | 14 | 2 | 8% |
| 2023 | Resident | 81 | 15 | 18.52% | 178 | 21 | 84% |
| 2023 | Nonresident | 10 | 0 | 0.00% | 53 | 2 | 8% |
| 2023 | Guided (outfitter) | 5 | 2 | 40.00% | 14 | 2 | 8% |
| 2022 | Resident | 94 | 49 | 52.13% | 472 | 185 | 92.5% |
| 2022 | Nonresident | 24 | 3 | 12.50% | 60 | 12 | 6% |
| 2022 | Guided (outfitter) | 3 | 3 | 100.00% | 0 | 3 | 1.5% |
| 2021 | Resident | 124 | 77 | 62.10% | 458 | 185 | 92.5% |
| 2021 | Nonresident | 27 | 5 | 18.52% | 56 | 12 | 6% |
| 2021 | Guided (outfitter) | 1 | 1 | 100.00% | 5 | 3 | 1.5% |
| 2020 | Resident | 112 | 71 | 63.39% | 423 | 186 | 93% |
| 2020 | Nonresident | 14 | 3 | 21.43% | 32 | 12 | 6% |
| 2020 | Guided (outfitter) | 1 | 1 | 100.00% | 2 | 2 | 1% |
| 2019 | Resident | 119 | 78 | 65.55% | 387 | 188 | — |
| 2019 | Nonresident | 10 | 8 | 80.00% | 13 | 12 | — |
| 2019 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 6 | 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 | 25 | 25 | 118 | 314 |
| 2025 | 25 | 25 | 94 | 269 |
| 2024 | 25 | 25 | 82 | 276 |
| 2023 | 25 | 25 | 96 | 341 |
| 2022 | 200 | 200 | 121 | 653 |
| 2021 | 200 | 200 | 152 | 671 |
| 2020 | 200 | 200 | 127 | 584 |
| 2019 | 200 | 200 | 129 | 535 |
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