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New Mexico · Pronghorn · bow only

New Mexico pronghorn hunt ANT-2-212

Unit 41. 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 28 licences on hunt code ANT-2-212 in 2026 and issued 28 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 9 nonresident applicants ranked it first and 1 drew it, 11.11%; 25 resident applicants ranked it first and 11 drew it, 44.00%; no guided (outfitter) applicant ranked it first.

Drawn in each of the 8 years the department has published, 2019 to 2026.

Residency pool

First-choice draw rate, by pool and year

The rate is the winners who were awarded this hunt as their first choice, divided by the applicants in the same pool who ranked it first. Both are exact integers the department printed in the same row. A dash means nobody in that pool ranked the hunt first, so the draw answered nothing — it is an absent measurement, not a nought.
YearPoolRanked it firstDrew on first choiceFirst-choice draw rateRanked it 2nd or 3rdLicences to this poolShare of the quota
2026Resident251144.00%772796.43%
2026Nonresident9111.11%613.57%
2026Guided (outfitter)00—000%
2025Resident251248.00%902692.86%
2025Nonresident1516.67%2813.57%
2025Guided (outfitter)00—113.57%
2024Resident38923.68%1043291.43%
2024Nonresident200.00%2025.71%
2024Guided (outfitter)00—112.86%
2023Resident271451.85%643291.43%
2023Nonresident8225.00%2525.71%
2023Guided (outfitter)11100.00%012.86%
2022Resident422150.00%953394.29%
2022Nonresident5120.00%1325.71%
2022Guided (outfitter)00—400%
2021Resident381744.74%833085.71%
2021Nonresident5240.00%2525.71%
2021Guided (outfitter)00—338.57%
2020Resident16956.25%693085.72%
2020Nonresident3133.33%1225.71%
2020Guided (outfitter)00—338.57%
2019Resident141392.86%3333—
2019Nonresident22100.00%32—
2019Guided (outfitter)00—10—

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.

Nonresident

100%2019
33%2020
40%2021
20%2022
25%2023
0%2024
7%2025
11%2026

Resident

93%2019
56%2020
45%2021
50%2022
52%2023
24%2024
48%2025
44%2026

Guided (outfitter)

—2019
—2020
—2021
—2022
100%2023
—2024
—2025
—2026

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.

YearLicences offeredLicences issuedApplicants who ranked it firstApplicants in total
2026282834117
2025282840159
2024353540165
2023353536125
2022353547159
2021353543154
2020353519103
201935351653

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

Nearby hunt codes

New Mexico grants no preference to previously unsuccessful applicants, so nothing on this page accumulates and nothing here predicts next year. See how these numbers are produced and checked, or the application deadlines.