New Mexico · Pronghorn · any legal big-game sporting arm
New Mexico pronghorn hunt ANT-1-257
Unit 59. 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 32 licences on hunt code ANT-1-257 in 2026 and issued 32 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 68 nonresident applicants ranked it first and 2 drew it, 2.94%; 215 resident applicants ranked it first and 10 drew it, 4.65%; 21 guided (outfitter) applicants ranked it first and 1 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 | 215 | 10 | 4.65% | 764 | 27 | 84.38% |
| 2026 | Nonresident | 68 | 2 | 2.94% | 139 | 2 | 6.25% |
| 2026 | Guided (outfitter) | 21 | 1 | 4.76% | 32 | 3 | 9.37% |
| 2025 | Resident | 283 | 19 | 6.71% | 749 | 27 | 84.37% |
| 2025 | Nonresident | 76 | 1 | 1.32% | 154 | 2 | 6.25% |
| 2025 | Guided (outfitter) | 12 | 2 | 16.67% | 32 | 3 | 9.38% |
| 2024 | Resident | 353 | 23 | 6.52% | 920 | 34 | 85% |
| 2024 | Nonresident | 52 | 2 | 3.85% | 147 | 2 | 5% |
| 2024 | Guided (outfitter) | 19 | 1 | 5.26% | 71 | 4 | 10% |
| 2023 | Resident | 281 | 13 | 4.63% | 828 | 34 | 85% |
| 2023 | Nonresident | 40 | 1 | 2.50% | 136 | 2 | 5% |
| 2023 | Guided (outfitter) | 11 | 0 | 0.00% | 39 | 4 | 10% |
| 2022 | Resident | 311 | 20 | 6.43% | 927 | 34 | 85% |
| 2022 | Nonresident | 47 | 0 | 0.00% | 155 | 2 | 5% |
| 2022 | Guided (outfitter) | 31 | 4 | 12.90% | 49 | 4 | 10% |
| 2021 | Resident | 311 | 17 | 5.47% | 812 | 34 | 85% |
| 2021 | Nonresident | 33 | 2 | 6.06% | 115 | 2 | 5% |
| 2021 | Guided (outfitter) | 7 | 4 | 57.14% | 22 | 4 | 10% |
| 2020 | Resident | 243 | 17 | 7.00% | 643 | 34 | 85% |
| 2020 | Nonresident | 29 | 0 | 0.00% | 65 | 2 | 5% |
| 2020 | Guided (outfitter) | 10 | 4 | 40.00% | 23 | 4 | 10% |
| 2019 | Resident | 199 | 23 | 11.56% | 596 | 34 | — |
| 2019 | Nonresident | 10 | 0 | 0.00% | 67 | 2 | — |
| 2019 | Guided (outfitter) | 1 | 1 | 100.00% | 6 | 4 | — |
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 | 32 | 32 | 304 | 1,239 |
| 2025 | 32 | 32 | 371 | 1,306 |
| 2024 | 40 | 40 | 424 | 1,562 |
| 2023 | 40 | 40 | 332 | 1,335 |
| 2022 | 40 | 40 | 389 | 1,520 |
| 2021 | 40 | 40 | 351 | 1,300 |
| 2020 | 40 | 40 | 282 | 1,013 |
| 2019 | 40 | 40 | 210 | 879 |
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