New Mexico · Deer · bow only
New Mexico deer hunt DER-2-225
Unit 21. 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 200 licences on hunt code DER-2-225 in 2026 and issued 200 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 27 nonresident applicants ranked it first and 5 drew it, 18.52%; 105 resident applicants ranked it first and 67 drew it, 63.81%; 2 guided (outfitter) applicants ranked it first and 2 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 | 105 | 67 | 63.81% | 446 | 180 | 90% |
| 2026 | Nonresident | 27 | 5 | 18.52% | 56 | 12 | 6% |
| 2026 | Guided (outfitter) | 2 | 2 | 100.00% | 12 | 8 | 4% |
| 2025 | Resident | 102 | 67 | 65.69% | 402 | 179 | 89.5% |
| 2025 | Nonresident | 27 | 9 | 33.33% | 99 | 12 | 6% |
| 2025 | Guided (outfitter) | 3 | 3 | 100.00% | 13 | 9 | 4.5% |
| 2024 | Resident | 124 | 71 | 57.26% | 490 | 182 | 91% |
| 2024 | Nonresident | 36 | 7 | 19.44% | 65 | 12 | 6% |
| 2024 | Guided (outfitter) | 2 | 2 | 100.00% | 7 | 6 | 3% |
| 2023 | Resident | 108 | 55 | 50.93% | 438 | 178 | 89% |
| 2023 | Nonresident | 15 | 6 | 40.00% | 64 | 12 | 6% |
| 2023 | Guided (outfitter) | 5 | 5 | 100.00% | 5 | 10 | 5% |
| 2022 | Resident | 21 | 13 | 61.90% | 45 | 22 | 88% |
| 2022 | Nonresident | 5 | 1 | 20.00% | 11 | 2 | 8% |
| 2022 | Guided (outfitter) | 1 | 1 | 100.00% | 1 | 1 | 4% |
| 2021 | Resident | 23 | 10 | 43.48% | 43 | 23 | 92% |
| 2021 | Nonresident | 4 | 1 | 25.00% | 16 | 2 | 8% |
| 2021 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| 2020 | Resident | 14 | 11 | 78.57% | 43 | 23 | 92% |
| 2020 | Nonresident | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | 9 | 2 | 8% |
| 2020 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| 2019 | Resident | 20 | 18 | 90.00% | 39 | 23 | — |
| 2019 | Nonresident | 4 | 2 | 50.00% | 3 | 2 | — |
| 2019 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 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 | 200 | 200 | 134 | 648 |
| 2025 | 200 | 200 | 132 | 646 |
| 2024 | 200 | 200 | 162 | 724 |
| 2023 | 200 | 200 | 128 | 635 |
| 2022 | 25 | 25 | 27 | 84 |
| 2021 | 25 | 25 | 27 | 86 |
| 2020 | 25 | 25 | 15 | 67 |
| 2019 | 25 | 25 | 24 | 66 |
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