New Mexico · Deer · bow only
New Mexico deer hunt DER-2-255
Unit 24, excluding Fort Bayard Management Area.. Bag limit FAWTD. 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 2022 draw did
New Mexico offered 40 licences on hunt code DER-2-255 in 2022 and issued 40 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 11 nonresident applicants ranked it first and 2 drew it, 18.18%; 19 resident applicants ranked it first and 15 drew it, 78.95%; 4 guided (outfitter) applicants ranked it first and 4 drew it, 100.00%.
This hunt code stops appearing after 2022. The department's 2026 report does not carry it, and this site does not map a retired code onto a current one — a renumbered hunt is not necessarily the same hunt, and the department has published nothing that says which is which. What is below is the record of the 4 years it was drawn.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Resident | 19 | 15 | 78.95% | 71 | 34 | 85% |
| 2022 | Nonresident | 11 | 2 | 18.18% | 13 | 2 | 5% |
| 2022 | Guided (outfitter) | 4 | 4 | 100.00% | 3 | 4 | 10% |
| 2021 | Resident | 12 | 12 | 100.00% | 62 | 35 | 87.5% |
| 2021 | Nonresident | 4 | 1 | 25.00% | 16 | 2 | 5% |
| 2021 | Guided (outfitter) | 3 | 3 | 100.00% | 0 | 3 | 7.5% |
| 2020 | Resident | 18 | 17 | 94.44% | 44 | 38 | 95% |
| 2020 | Nonresident | 6 | 1 | 16.67% | 5 | 2 | 5% |
| 2020 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| 2019 | Resident | 16 | 16 | 100.00% | 32 | 31 | — |
| 2019 | Nonresident | 7 | 7 | 100.00% | 2 | 8 | — |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 40 | 40 | 34 | 121 |
| 2021 | 40 | 40 | 19 | 97 |
| 2020 | 40 | 40 | 24 | 73 |
| 2019 | 40 | 39 | 23 | 57 |
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
- 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