New Mexico · Deer · bow only
New Mexico deer hunt DER-2-262
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 2026 draw did
New Mexico offered 40 licences on hunt code DER-2-262 in 2026 and issued 40 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 7 nonresident applicants ranked it first and 2 drew it, 28.57%; 22 resident applicants ranked it first and 18 drew it, 81.82%; 4 guided (outfitter) applicants ranked it first and 4 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 | 22 | 18 | 81.82% | 83 | 34 | 85% |
| 2026 | Nonresident | 7 | 2 | 28.57% | 14 | 2 | 5% |
| 2026 | Guided (outfitter) | 4 | 4 | 100.00% | 3 | 4 | 10% |
| 2025 | Resident | 14 | 11 | 78.57% | 70 | 35 | 87.5% |
| 2025 | Nonresident | 10 | 1 | 10.00% | 26 | 2 | 5% |
| 2025 | Guided (outfitter) | 3 | 3 | 100.00% | 2 | 3 | 7.5% |
| 2024 | Resident | 10 | 10 | 100.00% | 52 | 32 | 80% |
| 2024 | Nonresident | 5 | 4 | 80.00% | 16 | 6 | 15% |
| 2024 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 4 | 2 | 5% |
| 2023 | Resident | 10 | 10 | 100.00% | 42 | 29 | 72.5% |
| 2023 | Nonresident | 3 | 1 | 33.33% | 18 | 9 | 22.5% |
| 2023 | Guided (outfitter) | 3 | 0 | 0.00% | 7 | 2 | 5% |
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 | 40 | 40 | 33 | 133 |
| 2025 | 40 | 40 | 27 | 125 |
| 2024 | 40 | 40 | 15 | 87 |
| 2023 | 40 | 40 | 16 | 83 |
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