New Mexico · Oryx · any legal big-game sporting arm
New Mexico oryx hunt ORX-1-227
GMU 28 McGregor 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 25 licences on hunt code ORX-1-227 in 2026 and issued 25 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 95 nonresident applicants ranked it first and none of them drew it; 508 resident applicants ranked it first and 12 drew it, 2.36%; 42 guided (outfitter) applicants ranked it first and 2 drew it, 4.76%.
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 | 508 | 12 | 2.36% | 1,312 | 21 | 84% |
| 2026 | Nonresident | 95 | 0 | 0.00% | 224 | 2 | 8% |
| 2026 | Guided (outfitter) | 42 | 2 | 4.76% | 135 | 2 | 8% |
| 2025 | Resident | 549 | 17 | 3.10% | 1,400 | 21 | 84% |
| 2025 | Nonresident | 97 | 0 | 0.00% | 277 | 1 | 4% |
| 2025 | Guided (outfitter) | 43 | 2 | 4.65% | 156 | 3 | 12% |
| 2024 | Resident | 518 | 14 | 2.70% | 1,355 | 21 | 84% |
| 2024 | Nonresident | 108 | 1 | 0.93% | 243 | 1 | 4% |
| 2024 | Guided (outfitter) | 32 | 2 | 6.25% | 117 | 3 | 12% |
| 2023 | Resident | 462 | 13 | 2.81% | 1,302 | 21 | 84% |
| 2023 | Nonresident | 87 | 2 | 2.30% | 226 | 2 | 8% |
| 2023 | Guided (outfitter) | 35 | 2 | 5.71% | 111 | 2 | 8% |
| 2022 | Resident | 37 | 15 | 40.54% | 73 | 21 | 84% |
| 2022 | Nonresident | 21 | 2 | 9.52% | 49 | 2 | 8% |
| 2022 | Guided (outfitter) | 1 | 1 | 100.00% | 8 | 2 | 8% |
| 2021 | Resident | 44 | 12 | 27.27% | 92 | 21 | 84% |
| 2021 | Nonresident | 24 | 1 | 4.17% | 56 | 2 | 8% |
| 2021 | Guided (outfitter) | 2 | 0 | 0.00% | 8 | 2 | 8% |
| 2020 | Resident | 36 | 14 | 38.89% | 68 | 21 | 84% |
| 2020 | Nonresident | 21 | 1 | 4.76% | 46 | 2 | 8% |
| 2020 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 6 | 2 | 8% |
| 2019 | Resident | 23 | 5 | 21.74% | 72 | 12 | — |
| 2019 | Nonresident | 25 | 6 | 24.00% | 48 | 11 | — |
| 2019 | Guided (outfitter) | 1 | 1 | 100.00% | 1 | 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 | 25 | 25 | 645 | 2,316 |
| 2025 | 25 | 25 | 689 | 2,522 |
| 2024 | 25 | 25 | 658 | 2,373 |
| 2023 | 25 | 25 | 584 | 2,223 |
| 2022 | 25 | 25 | 59 | 189 |
| 2021 | 25 | 25 | 70 | 226 |
| 2020 | 25 | 25 | 57 | 177 |
| 2019 | 25 | 25 | 49 | 170 |
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