New Mexico · Elk · bow only
New Mexico elk hunt ELK-2-311
Unit 34. 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 200 licences on hunt code ELK-2-311 in 2022 and issued 200 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 439 nonresident applicants ranked it first and 9 drew it, 2.05%; 765 resident applicants ranked it first and 123 drew it, 16.08%; 249 guided (outfitter) applicants ranked it first and 8 drew it, 3.21%.
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 | 765 | 123 | 16.08% | 1,277 | 168 | 84% |
| 2022 | Nonresident | 439 | 9 | 2.05% | 749 | 12 | 6% |
| 2022 | Guided (outfitter) | 249 | 8 | 3.21% | 574 | 20 | 10% |
| 2021 | Resident | 825 | 119 | 14.42% | 1,415 | 168 | 84% |
| 2021 | Nonresident | 393 | 6 | 1.53% | 647 | 12 | 6% |
| 2021 | Guided (outfitter) | 210 | 15 | 7.14% | 500 | 20 | 10% |
| 2020 | Resident | 636 | 111 | 17.45% | 1,105 | 168 | 84% |
| 2020 | Nonresident | 250 | 7 | 2.80% | 471 | 12 | 6% |
| 2020 | Guided (outfitter) | 126 | 6 | 4.76% | 396 | 20 | 10% |
| 2019 | Resident | 655 | 124 | 18.93% | 1,172 | 168 | — |
| 2019 | Nonresident | 186 | 5 | 2.69% | 379 | 12 | — |
| 2019 | Guided (outfitter) | 103 | 12 | 11.65% | 340 | 20 | — |
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 | 200 | 200 | 1,453 | 4,053 |
| 2021 | 200 | 200 | 1,428 | 3,990 |
| 2020 | 200 | 200 | 1,012 | 2,984 |
| 2019 | 200 | 200 | 944 | 2,835 |
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