New Mexico · Oryx · any legal big-game sporting arm
New Mexico oryx hunt ORX-1-223
statewide, off-range. 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 96 licences on hunt code ORX-1-223 in 2026 and issued 96 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 113 nonresident applicants ranked it first and 6 drew it, 5.31%; 717 resident applicants ranked it first and 50 drew it, 6.97%; 58 guided (outfitter) applicants ranked it first and 3 drew it, 5.17%.
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 | 717 | 50 | 6.97% | 3,148 | 81 | 84.38% |
| 2026 | Nonresident | 113 | 6 | 5.31% | 387 | 6 | 6.25% |
| 2026 | Guided (outfitter) | 58 | 3 | 5.17% | 412 | 9 | 9.37% |
| 2025 | Resident | 761 | 54 | 7.10% | 3,009 | 81 | 84.37% |
| 2025 | Nonresident | 99 | 3 | 3.03% | 336 | 6 | 6.25% |
| 2025 | Guided (outfitter) | 54 | 4 | 7.41% | 382 | 9 | 9.38% |
| 2024 | Resident | 696 | 61 | 8.76% | 2,909 | 81 | 84.38% |
| 2024 | Nonresident | 84 | 2 | 2.38% | 313 | 6 | 6.25% |
| 2024 | Guided (outfitter) | 70 | 5 | 7.14% | 324 | 9 | 9.37% |
| 2023 | Resident | 773 | 51 | 6.60% | 3,052 | 81 | 84.38% |
| 2023 | Nonresident | 78 | 4 | 5.13% | 231 | 6 | 6.24% |
| 2023 | Guided (outfitter) | 62 | 7 | 11.29% | 308 | 9 | 9.38% |
| 2022 | Resident | 46 | 7 | 15.22% | 308 | 17 | 85% |
| 2022 | Nonresident | 7 | 0 | 0.00% | 16 | 1 | 5% |
| 2022 | Guided (outfitter) | 6 | 2 | 33.33% | 19 | 2 | 10% |
| 2021 | Resident | 28 | 5 | 17.86% | 266 | 17 | 85% |
| 2021 | Nonresident | 11 | 1 | 9.09% | 6 | 1 | 5% |
| 2021 | Guided (outfitter) | 4 | 0 | 0.00% | 25 | 2 | 10% |
| 2020 | Resident | 30 | 6 | 20.00% | 195 | 17 | 85% |
| 2020 | Nonresident | 1 | 1 | 100.00% | 1 | 1 | 5% |
| 2020 | Guided (outfitter) | 3 | 1 | 33.33% | 12 | 2 | 10% |
| 2019 | Resident | 25 | 7 | 28.00% | 163 | 18 | — |
| 2019 | Nonresident | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 6 | 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 | 96 | 96 | 888 | 4,835 |
| 2025 | 96 | 96 | 914 | 4,641 |
| 2024 | 96 | 96 | 850 | 4,396 |
| 2023 | 96 | 96 | 913 | 4,504 |
| 2022 | 20 | 20 | 59 | 402 |
| 2021 | 20 | 20 | 43 | 340 |
| 2020 | 20 | 20 | 34 | 242 |
| 2019 | 20 | 20 | 25 | 194 |
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