New Mexico · Oryx · any legal big-game sporting arm
New Mexico oryx hunt ORX-1-217
statewide, off-range, youth only. 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 24 licences on hunt code ORX-1-217 in 2026 and issued 24 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 13 nonresident applicants ranked it first and 1 drew it, 7.69%; 100 resident applicants ranked it first and 9 drew it, 9.00%; 9 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 | 100 | 9 | 9.00% | 334 | 21 | 87.5% |
| 2026 | Nonresident | 13 | 1 | 7.69% | 27 | 1 | 4.17% |
| 2026 | Guided (outfitter) | 9 | 0 | 0.00% | 43 | 2 | 8.33% |
| 2025 | Resident | 93 | 15 | 16.13% | 312 | 21 | 87.5% |
| 2025 | Nonresident | 11 | 0 | 0.00% | 38 | 1 | 4.17% |
| 2025 | Guided (outfitter) | 6 | 0 | 0.00% | 34 | 2 | 8.33% |
| 2024 | Resident | 80 | 6 | 7.50% | 328 | 21 | 87.5% |
| 2024 | Nonresident | 7 | 0 | 0.00% | 20 | 1 | 4.17% |
| 2024 | Guided (outfitter) | 6 | 0 | 0.00% | 36 | 2 | 8.33% |
| 2023 | Resident | 85 | 10 | 11.76% | 270 | 21 | 87.5% |
| 2023 | Nonresident | 11 | 0 | 0.00% | 30 | 1 | 4.17% |
| 2023 | Guided (outfitter) | 2 | 0 | 0.00% | 33 | 2 | 8.33% |
| 2022 | Resident | 65 | 7 | 10.77% | 275 | 17 | 85% |
| 2022 | Nonresident | 0 | 0 | — | 13 | 1 | 5% |
| 2022 | Guided (outfitter) | 7 | 1 | 14.29% | 29 | 2 | 10% |
| 2021 | Resident | 70 | 8 | 11.43% | 236 | 17 | 85% |
| 2021 | Nonresident | 3 | 0 | 0.00% | 5 | 1 | 5% |
| 2021 | Guided (outfitter) | 8 | 1 | 12.50% | 17 | 2 | 10% |
| 2020 | Resident | 45 | 8 | 17.78% | 143 | 17 | 85% |
| 2020 | Nonresident | 0 | 0 | — | 2 | 1 | 5% |
| 2020 | Guided (outfitter) | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | 10 | 2 | 10% |
| 2019 | Resident | 48 | 10 | 20.83% | 174 | 17 | — |
| 2019 | Nonresident | 2 | 1 | 50.00% | 1 | 1 | — |
| 2019 | Guided (outfitter) | 9 | 2 | 22.22% | 9 | 2 | — |
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 | 24 | 24 | 122 | 526 |
| 2025 | 24 | 24 | 110 | 494 |
| 2024 | 24 | 24 | 93 | 477 |
| 2023 | 24 | 24 | 98 | 431 |
| 2022 | 20 | 20 | 72 | 389 |
| 2021 | 20 | 20 | 81 | 339 |
| 2020 | 20 | 20 | 46 | 201 |
| 2019 | 20 | 20 | 59 | 243 |
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