New Mexico · Deer · muzzleloader, crossbow or bow only
New Mexico deer hunt DER-3-126
Unit 2B: private land only. 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 10 licences on hunt code DER-3-126 in 2026 and issued 0, because nobody drew it at all. Among the three pools the state draws separately, no nonresident applicant ranked it first; no resident applicant ranked it first; no guided (outfitter) applicant ranked it first.
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 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| 2026 | Nonresident | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| 2026 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| 2025 | Resident | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| 2025 | Nonresident | 2 | 2 | 100.00% | 0 | 2 | 20% |
| 2025 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 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.
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 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
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