New Mexico · Elk · bow only
New Mexico elk hunt ELK-2-232
Unit 15. 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 250 licences on hunt code ELK-2-232 in 2022 and issued 250 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 707 nonresident applicants ranked it first and 11 drew it, 1.56%; 1,328 resident applicants ranked it first and 190 drew it, 14.31%; 230 guided (outfitter) applicants ranked it first and 6 drew it, 2.61%.
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 | 1,328 | 190 | 14.31% | 1,371 | 210 | 84% |
| 2022 | Nonresident | 707 | 11 | 1.56% | 983 | 15 | 6% |
| 2022 | Guided (outfitter) | 230 | 6 | 2.61% | 815 | 25 | 10% |
| 2021 | Resident | 1,226 | 188 | 15.33% | 1,434 | 210 | 84% |
| 2021 | Nonresident | 522 | 9 | 1.72% | 785 | 15 | 6% |
| 2021 | Guided (outfitter) | 227 | 9 | 3.96% | 573 | 25 | 10% |
| 2020 | Resident | 1,083 | 183 | 16.90% | 1,236 | 210 | 84% |
| 2020 | Nonresident | 480 | 9 | 1.88% | 648 | 15 | 6% |
| 2020 | Guided (outfitter) | 245 | 10 | 4.08% | 566 | 25 | 10% |
| 2019 | Resident | 1,092 | 190 | 17.40% | 1,060 | 210 | — |
| 2019 | Nonresident | 484 | 13 | 2.69% | 687 | 15 | — |
| 2019 | Guided (outfitter) | 194 | 12 | 6.19% | 539 | 25 | — |
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 | 250 | 250 | 2,265 | 5,434 |
| 2021 | 250 | 250 | 1,975 | 4,767 |
| 2020 | 250 | 250 | 1,808 | 4,258 |
| 2019 | 250 | 250 | 1,770 | 4,056 |
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