New Mexico · Elk · bow only
New Mexico elk hunt ELK-2-312
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-2-312 in 2022 and issued 200 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 868 nonresident applicants ranked it first and 12 drew it, 1.38%; 1,413 resident applicants ranked it first and 147 drew it, 10.40%; 684 guided (outfitter) applicants ranked it first and 19 drew it, 2.78%.
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 | 1,413 | 147 | 10.40% | 1,423 | 168 | 84% |
| 2022 | Nonresident | 868 | 12 | 1.38% | 809 | 12 | 6% |
| 2022 | Guided (outfitter) | 684 | 19 | 2.78% | 347 | 20 | 10% |
| 2021 | Resident | 1,481 | 162 | 10.94% | 1,495 | 168 | 84% |
| 2021 | Nonresident | 679 | 8 | 1.18% | 748 | 12 | 6% |
| 2021 | Guided (outfitter) | 570 | 20 | 3.51% | 317 | 20 | 10% |
| 2020 | Resident | 1,317 | 159 | 12.07% | 1,297 | 168 | 84% |
| 2020 | Nonresident | 574 | 11 | 1.92% | 570 | 12 | 6% |
| 2020 | Guided (outfitter) | 469 | 15 | 3.20% | 221 | 20 | 10% |
| 2019 | Resident | 1,364 | 155 | 11.36% | 1,260 | 168 | — |
| 2019 | Nonresident | 440 | 9 | 2.05% | 428 | 12 | — |
| 2019 | Guided (outfitter) | 414 | 17 | 4.11% | 201 | 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 | 2,965 | 5,544 |
| 2021 | 200 | 200 | 2,730 | 5,290 |
| 2020 | 200 | 200 | 2,360 | 4,448 |
| 2019 | 200 | 200 | 2,218 | 4,107 |
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