New Mexico · Oryx · any legal big-game sporting arm
New Mexico oryx hunt ORX-1-219
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-1-219 in 2026 and issued 24 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 8 nonresident applicants ranked it first and none of them drew it; 72 resident applicants ranked it first and 5 drew it, 6.94%; 12 guided (outfitter) applicants ranked it first and 1 drew it, 8.33%.
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 | 72 | 5 | 6.94% | 358 | 21 | 87.5% |
| 2026 | Nonresident | 8 | 0 | 0.00% | 29 | 1 | 4.17% |
| 2026 | Guided (outfitter) | 12 | 1 | 8.33% | 49 | 2 | 8.33% |
| 2025 | Resident | 72 | 7 | 9.72% | 373 | 21 | 87.5% |
| 2025 | Nonresident | 8 | 0 | 0.00% | 35 | 1 | 4.17% |
| 2025 | Guided (outfitter) | 19 | 1 | 5.26% | 33 | 2 | 8.33% |
| 2024 | Resident | 46 | 8 | 17.39% | 300 | 21 | 87.5% |
| 2024 | Nonresident | 7 | 0 | 0.00% | 23 | 1 | 4.17% |
| 2024 | Guided (outfitter) | 17 | 2 | 11.76% | 25 | 2 | 8.33% |
| 2023 | Resident | 81 | 9 | 11.11% | 332 | 21 | 87.5% |
| 2023 | Nonresident | 6 | 1 | 16.67% | 31 | 1 | 4.17% |
| 2023 | Guided (outfitter) | 10 | 1 | 10.00% | 23 | 2 | 8.33% |
| 2022 | Resident | 94 | 8 | 8.51% | 242 | 17 | 85% |
| 2022 | Nonresident | 5 | 0 | 0.00% | 18 | 1 | 5% |
| 2022 | Guided (outfitter) | 3 | 1 | 33.33% | 16 | 2 | 10% |
| 2021 | Resident | 91 | 8 | 8.79% | 262 | 17 | 85% |
| 2021 | Nonresident | 2 | 1 | 50.00% | 11 | 1 | 5% |
| 2021 | Guided (outfitter) | 2 | 1 | 50.00% | 18 | 2 | 10% |
| 2020 | Resident | 37 | 4 | 10.81% | 166 | 17 | 85% |
| 2020 | Nonresident | 2 | 0 | 0.00% | 3 | 1 | 5% |
| 2020 | Guided (outfitter) | 3 | 0 | 0.00% | 16 | 2 | 10% |
| 2019 | Resident | 39 | 5 | 12.82% | 165 | 17 | — |
| 2019 | Nonresident | 0 | 0 | — | 2 | 1 | — |
| 2019 | Guided (outfitter) | 1 | 1 | 100.00% | 13 | 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 | 92 | 528 |
| 2025 | 24 | 24 | 99 | 540 |
| 2024 | 24 | 24 | 70 | 418 |
| 2023 | 24 | 24 | 97 | 483 |
| 2022 | 20 | 20 | 102 | 378 |
| 2021 | 20 | 20 | 95 | 386 |
| 2020 | 20 | 20 | 42 | 227 |
| 2019 | 20 | 20 | 40 | 220 |
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