New Mexico · Ibex · any legal big-game sporting arm
New Mexico ibex hunt IBX-1-101
Unit 25 Florida mountains, once-in-a-lifetime. 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 2026 draw did
New Mexico offered 5 licences on hunt code IBX-1-101 in 2026 and issued 5 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 1,525 nonresident applicants ranked it first and none of them drew it; 4,259 resident applicants ranked it first and 5 drew it, 0.12%; 775 guided (outfitter) applicants ranked it first and none of them drew it.
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 | 4,259 | 5 | 0.12% | 329 | 5 | 100% |
| 2026 | Nonresident | 1,525 | 0 | 0.00% | 79 | 0 | 0% |
| 2026 | Guided (outfitter) | 775 | 0 | 0.00% | 11 | 0 | 0% |
| 2025 | Resident | 4,257 | 13 | 0.31% | 644 | 13 | 86.66% |
| 2025 | Nonresident | 1,814 | 1 | 0.06% | 201 | 1 | 6.67% |
| 2025 | Guided (outfitter) | 1,528 | 1 | 0.07% | 37 | 1 | 6.67% |
| 2024 | Resident | 4,326 | 13 | 0.30% | 633 | 13 | 86.67% |
| 2024 | Nonresident | 1,910 | 1 | 0.05% | 185 | 1 | 6.67% |
| 2024 | Guided (outfitter) | 1,562 | 1 | 0.06% | 57 | 1 | 6.66% |
| 2023 | Resident | 4,415 | 13 | 0.29% | 683 | 13 | 86.67% |
| 2023 | Nonresident | 1,795 | 1 | 0.06% | 210 | 1 | 6.67% |
| 2023 | Guided (outfitter) | 1,624 | 1 | 0.06% | 71 | 1 | 6.66% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 5 | 5 | 6,559 | 6,978 |
| 2025 | 15 | 15 | 7,599 | 8,481 |
| 2024 | 15 | 15 | 7,798 | 8,673 |
| 2023 | 15 | 15 | 7,834 | 8,798 |
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
- 2024CompleteReport.xlsx — New Mexico Department of Wildlife, published 2024-04-09, fetched 2026-08-31
- 2023-odds_corrected_CN.xlsx — New Mexico Department of Wildlife, published 2023-04-11, fetched 2026-08-31