New Mexico · Oryx · any legal big-game sporting arm
New Mexico oryx hunt ORX-1-117
GMU 19 WSMR: Rhodes Canyon. 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-1-117 in 2026 and issued 15 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 34 nonresident applicants ranked it first and none of them drew it; 253 resident applicants ranked it first and 7 drew it, 2.77%; 10 guided (outfitter) applicants ranked it first and 1 drew it, 10.00%.
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 | 253 | 7 | 2.77% | 954 | 13 | 86.66% |
| 2026 | Nonresident | 34 | 0 | 0.00% | 102 | 1 | 6.67% |
| 2026 | Guided (outfitter) | 10 | 1 | 10.00% | 37 | 1 | 6.67% |
| 2025 | Resident | 292 | 9 | 3.08% | 905 | 13 | 86.66% |
| 2025 | Nonresident | 34 | 1 | 2.94% | 87 | 1 | 6.67% |
| 2025 | Guided (outfitter) | 6 | 1 | 16.67% | 28 | 1 | 6.67% |
| 2024 | Resident | 270 | 11 | 4.07% | 861 | 13 | 86.67% |
| 2024 | Nonresident | 28 | 1 | 3.57% | 78 | 1 | 6.67% |
| 2024 | Guided (outfitter) | 6 | 0 | 0.00% | 26 | 1 | 6.66% |
| 2023 | Resident | 196 | 6 | 3.06% | 807 | 13 | 86.67% |
| 2023 | Nonresident | 19 | 0 | 0.00% | 89 | 1 | 6.67% |
| 2023 | Guided (outfitter) | 5 | 0 | 0.00% | 31 | 1 | 6.66% |
| 2022 | Resident | 23 | 5 | 21.74% | 51 | 5 | 100% |
| 2022 | Nonresident | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| 2022 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| 2021 | Resident | 17 | 3 | 17.65% | 80 | 5 | 100% |
| 2021 | Nonresident | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| 2021 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| 2020 | Resident | 15 | 3 | 20.00% | 40 | 5 | 100% |
| 2020 | Nonresident | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| 2020 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| 2019 | Resident | 13 | 2 | 15.38% | 37 | 5 | — |
| 2019 | Nonresident | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 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 | 297 | 1,390 |
| 2025 | 15 | 15 | 332 | 1,352 |
| 2024 | 15 | 15 | 304 | 1,269 |
| 2023 | 15 | 15 | 220 | 1,147 |
| 2022 | 5 | 5 | 23 | 74 |
| 2021 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 97 |
| 2020 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 55 |
| 2019 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 50 |
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