New Mexico · Pronghorn · any legal big-game sporting arm
New Mexico pronghorn hunt ANT-1-171
Unit 31 south of US 380. Bag limit mature bull (MB). 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 20 licences on hunt code ANT-1-171 in 2026 and issued 20 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 85 nonresident applicants ranked it first and none of them drew it; 181 resident applicants ranked it first and 10 drew it, 5.52%; 19 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 | 181 | 10 | 5.52% | 586 | 17 | 85% |
| 2026 | Nonresident | 85 | 0 | 0.00% | 137 | 1 | 5% |
| 2026 | Guided (outfitter) | 19 | 0 | 0.00% | 149 | 2 | 10% |
| 2025 | Resident | 199 | 14 | 7.04% | 619 | 17 | 85% |
| 2025 | Nonresident | 71 | 1 | 1.41% | 134 | 1 | 5% |
| 2025 | Guided (outfitter) | 18 | 0 | 0.00% | 188 | 2 | 10% |
| 2024 | Resident | 149 | 7 | 4.70% | 636 | 17 | 85% |
| 2024 | Nonresident | 72 | 1 | 1.39% | 106 | 1 | 5% |
| 2024 | Guided (outfitter) | 10 | 0 | 0.00% | 133 | 2 | 10% |
| 2023 | Resident | 182 | 6 | 3.30% | 593 | 17 | 85% |
| 2023 | Nonresident | 64 | 1 | 1.56% | 121 | 1 | 5% |
| 2023 | Guided (outfitter) | 8 | 1 | 12.50% | 81 | 2 | 10% |
| 2022 | Resident | 165 | 8 | 4.85% | 498 | 17 | 85% |
| 2022 | Nonresident | 46 | 0 | 0.00% | 106 | 1 | 5% |
| 2022 | Guided (outfitter) | 6 | 2 | 33.33% | 32 | 2 | 10% |
| 2021 | Resident | 165 | 7 | 4.24% | 572 | 17 | 85% |
| 2021 | Nonresident | 54 | 1 | 1.85% | 104 | 1 | 5% |
| 2021 | Guided (outfitter) | 5 | 0 | 0.00% | 36 | 2 | 10% |
| 2020 | Resident | 109 | 13 | 11.93% | 350 | 17 | 85% |
| 2020 | Nonresident | 29 | 1 | 3.45% | 35 | 1 | 5% |
| 2020 | Guided (outfitter) | 0 | 0 | — | 8 | 2 | 10% |
| 2019 | Resident | 161 | 11 | 6.83% | 445 | 17 | — |
| 2019 | Nonresident | 11 | 0 | 0.00% | 38 | 1 | — |
| 2019 | Guided (outfitter) | 4 | 2 | 50.00% | 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 | 20 | 20 | 285 | 1,157 |
| 2025 | 20 | 20 | 288 | 1,229 |
| 2024 | 20 | 20 | 231 | 1,106 |
| 2023 | 20 | 20 | 254 | 1,049 |
| 2022 | 20 | 20 | 217 | 853 |
| 2021 | 20 | 20 | 224 | 936 |
| 2020 | 20 | 20 | 138 | 531 |
| 2019 | 20 | 20 | 176 | 672 |
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