New Mexico · Oryx · any legal big-game sporting arm
New Mexico oryx hunt ORX-1-114
GMU 19 WSMR: Stallion Range. Bag limit BHO. 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 15 licences on hunt code ORX-1-114 in 2026 and issued 15 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 23 nonresident applicants ranked it first and none of them drew it; 310 resident applicants ranked it first and 10 drew it, 3.23%; 3 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 | 310 | 10 | 3.23% | 561 | 13 | 86.66% |
| 2026 | Nonresident | 23 | 0 | 0.00% | 40 | 1 | 6.67% |
| 2026 | Guided (outfitter) | 3 | 0 | 0.00% | 24 | 1 | 6.67% |
| 2025 | Resident | 332 | 10 | 3.01% | 641 | 13 | 86.66% |
| 2025 | Nonresident | 19 | 1 | 5.26% | 52 | 1 | 6.67% |
| 2025 | Guided (outfitter) | 5 | 1 | 20.00% | 14 | 1 | 6.67% |
| 2024 | Resident | 339 | 11 | 3.24% | 726 | 13 | 86.67% |
| 2024 | Nonresident | 11 | 0 | 0.00% | 55 | 1 | 6.67% |
| 2024 | Guided (outfitter) | 11 | 0 | 0.00% | 8 | 1 | 6.66% |
| 2023 | Resident | 343 | 9 | 2.62% | 684 | 13 | 86.67% |
| 2023 | Nonresident | 19 | 1 | 5.26% | 36 | 1 | 6.67% |
| 2023 | Guided (outfitter) | 13 | 1 | 7.69% | 11 | 1 | 6.66% |
| 2022 | Resident | 27 | 5 | 18.52% | 75 | 5 | 100% |
| 2022 | Nonresident | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| 2022 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| 2021 | Resident | 20 | 2 | 10.00% | 52 | 5 | 100% |
| 2021 | Nonresident | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| 2021 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| 2020 | Resident | 32 | 5 | 15.63% | 53 | 5 | 100% |
| 2020 | Nonresident | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| 2020 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| 2019 | Resident | 22 | 3 | 13.64% | 59 | 5 | — |
| 2019 | Nonresident | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | — |
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 | 15 | 15 | 336 | 961 |
| 2025 | 15 | 15 | 356 | 1,063 |
| 2024 | 15 | 15 | 361 | 1,150 |
| 2023 | 15 | 15 | 375 | 1,106 |
| 2022 | 5 | 5 | 27 | 102 |
| 2021 | 5 | 5 | 20 | 72 |
| 2020 | 5 | 5 | 32 | 87 |
| 2019 | 5 | 5 | 22 | 82 |
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
- 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