New Mexico · Ibex · bow only
New Mexico ibex hunt IBX-2-536
25 Florida mountains. 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 100 licences on hunt code IBX-2-536 in 2022 and issued 100 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 116 nonresident applicants ranked it first and 1 drew it, 0.86%; 149 resident applicants ranked it first and 18 drew it, 12.08%; 35 guided (outfitter) applicants ranked it first and 2 drew it, 5.71%.
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 | 149 | 18 | 12.08% | 968 | 84 | 84% |
| 2022 | Nonresident | 116 | 1 | 0.86% | 297 | 6 | 6% |
| 2022 | Guided (outfitter) | 35 | 2 | 5.71% | 160 | 10 | 10% |
| 2021 | Resident | 169 | 21 | 12.43% | 974 | 84 | 84% |
| 2021 | Nonresident | 122 | 4 | 3.28% | 249 | 6 | 6% |
| 2021 | Guided (outfitter) | 37 | 2 | 5.41% | 191 | 10 | 10% |
| 2020 | Resident | 130 | 13 | 10.00% | 814 | 84 | 84% |
| 2020 | Nonresident | 81 | 3 | 3.70% | 207 | 6 | 6% |
| 2020 | Guided (outfitter) | 38 | 0 | 0.00% | 152 | 10 | 10% |
| 2019 | Resident | 202 | 25 | 12.38% | 763 | 84 | — |
| 2019 | Nonresident | 87 | 2 | 2.30% | 153 | 6 | — |
| 2019 | Guided (outfitter) | 37 | 3 | 8.11% | 158 | 10 | — |
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 | 100 | 100 | 300 | 1,725 |
| 2021 | 100 | 100 | 328 | 1,742 |
| 2020 | 100 | 100 | 249 | 1,422 |
| 2019 | 100 | 100 | 326 | 1,400 |
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