New Mexico · Pronghorn · muzzleloader, crossbow or bow only
New Mexico pronghorn hunt ANT-3-234
Units 50, 52. 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 2022 draw did
New Mexico offered 40 licences on hunt code ANT-3-234 in 2022 and issued 40 — the hunt filled. Among the three pools the state draws separately, 107 nonresident applicants ranked it first and none of them drew it; 1,490 resident applicants ranked it first and 33 drew it, 2.21%; 37 guided (outfitter) applicants ranked it first and 3 drew it, 8.11%.
This hunt code stops appearing after 2022. The department's 2026 report does not carry it, and this site does not map a retired code onto a current one — a renumbered hunt is not necessarily the same hunt, and the department has published nothing that says which is which. What is below is the record of the 4 years it was drawn.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Resident | 1,490 | 33 | 2.21% | 896 | 34 | 85% |
| 2022 | Nonresident | 107 | 0 | 0.00% | 112 | 2 | 5% |
| 2022 | Guided (outfitter) | 37 | 3 | 8.11% | 33 | 4 | 10% |
| 2021 | Resident | 1,646 | 34 | 2.07% | 848 | 34 | 85% |
| 2021 | Nonresident | 112 | 1 | 0.89% | 83 | 2 | 5% |
| 2021 | Guided (outfitter) | 27 | 2 | 7.41% | 34 | 4 | 10% |
| 2020 | Resident | 1,320 | 33 | 2.50% | 736 | 34 | 85% |
| 2020 | Nonresident | 86 | 2 | 2.33% | 80 | 2 | 5% |
| 2020 | Guided (outfitter) | 15 | 1 | 6.67% | 24 | 4 | 10% |
| 2019 | Resident | 1,456 | 34 | 2.34% | 786 | 34 | — |
| 2019 | Nonresident | 84 | 2 | 2.38% | 80 | 2 | — |
| 2019 | Guided (outfitter) | 17 | 2 | 11.76% | 35 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 40 | 40 | 1,634 | 2,675 |
| 2021 | 40 | 40 | 1,785 | 2,750 |
| 2020 | 40 | 40 | 1,421 | 2,261 |
| 2019 | 40 | 40 | 1,557 | 2,458 |
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
- 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