New Mexico · Elk · bow only
New Mexico elk hunt ELK-2-184
Unit 6A. Bag limit either sex (ES). 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 150 licences on hunt code ELK-2-184 in 2022 and issued 150 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 113 nonresident applicants ranked it first and 2 drew it, 1.77%; 411 resident applicants ranked it first and 93 drew it, 22.63%; 54 guided (outfitter) applicants ranked it first and 8 drew it, 14.81%.
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 | 411 | 93 | 22.63% | 695 | 126 | 84% |
| 2022 | Nonresident | 113 | 2 | 1.77% | 213 | 9 | 6% |
| 2022 | Guided (outfitter) | 54 | 8 | 14.81% | 139 | 15 | 10% |
| 2021 | Resident | 430 | 85 | 19.77% | 676 | 126 | 84% |
| 2021 | Nonresident | 145 | 7 | 4.83% | 242 | 9 | 6% |
| 2021 | Guided (outfitter) | 50 | 11 | 22.00% | 146 | 15 | 10% |
| 2020 | Resident | 353 | 90 | 25.50% | 639 | 126 | 84% |
| 2020 | Nonresident | 94 | 7 | 7.45% | 140 | 9 | 6% |
| 2020 | Guided (outfitter) | 30 | 8 | 26.67% | 104 | 15 | 10% |
| 2019 | Resident | 327 | 85 | 25.99% | 535 | 126 | — |
| 2019 | Nonresident | 84 | 6 | 7.14% | 111 | 9 | — |
| 2019 | Guided (outfitter) | 26 | 7 | 26.92% | 97 | 15 | — |
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 | 150 | 150 | 578 | 1,625 |
| 2021 | 150 | 150 | 625 | 1,689 |
| 2020 | 150 | 150 | 477 | 1,360 |
| 2019 | 150 | 150 | 437 | 1,180 |
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