New Mexico Deer DER-1-116 — GMU 2B
Unit 2B: private land only — fork-antlered deer
- What you may take
- Unit 2B: private land only — fork-antlered deer (male)
- Weapon
- Rifle
- Season
- —
- Tags (2026)
- 11
- for 8 first-choice applicants · nonresidents capped at 6%
- Hunter success here (2025)
- 50%
- of everyone who hunted the area
Showing nonresident results (Standard class). Switch to resident · Standard Outfitter
Odds by point level — 2026 draw
Undersubscribed: 8 of 11 tags claimed by first-choice nonresident applicants in 2026. Everyone who applied drew and the rest went to the leftover draw — the 100% reflects low demand, not a great tag. A code like this can flip the year demand catches up.
Prior-draw probability for a first-choice nonresident applicant. 11 tags, 8 first-choice applicants. Source: 2026 Big Game Drawing Odds... · sheet1 row 204.
| Points | Your chance | Applicants | Drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 100% | — | — |
Fewer applicants than tags. A dash means New Mexico Department of Game and Fish did not publish a count for that level. How we compute these.
What it costs (2026 nonresident fees)
At the 2026 odds, expected cost per hunt-year ranges from $502 (enough points to draw) .
Next application window: closes Mar 18, 2027 (expected) · results ~April 22. Last cycle's schedule rolled forward — confirm when the agency publishes.
Point creep & years to draw
No points in this draw — every applicant has the same chance each year, so there is no cut to creep and nothing to build toward.
How this tag has hunted
Across every license type in GMU 2B, New Mexico Department of Game and Fish counted 1,617 hunters and 806 deer taken in 2025 — 50% of them killed something. Full GMU 2B profile: maps, public land, five years of harvest →
Hunters holding this license type (2025) — the rest of the area's hunters held something else:
| What they hunted | Hunters | Harvest | Success | Days per animal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type YOUTH | 46 | 24 | 53% | — |
| Type REG | 145 | 18 | 12% | — |
| Type YOUTH | 17 | 4 | 24% | — |
| Type REG | 2 | 0 | 0% | — |
| Type REG | 18 | 8 | 44% | — |
| Type REG | 29 | 23 | 81% | — |
| Type REG | 28 | 16 | 57% | — |
| Type REG | 0 | — | — | — |
| Type REG | 30 | 18 | 62% | — |
| Type REG | 49 | 15 | 31% | — |
| Type REG | 17 | 0 | 0% | — |
Post-season survey, not draw statistics. Source: 2025-2026 Deer Harvest Report 2024-2025 Deer Harvest Report
As a lower choice
Drawn at this choice ÷ applicants listing it at this choice, as published. Points do not help a lower choice.
Year by year
The standard draw for nonresidents, one row per year.
| Year | Tags | Applicants | Applicants per tag | Points needed | Published odds | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 11 | 8 | 0.7 | — | 100% | 2026 Big Game Drawing Odds... · sheet1 row 204 |
| 2025 | 8 | 4 | 0.5 | — | 100% | 2025-26 Big-Game Drawing Odds... · sheet1 row 206 |
| 2024 | 14 | 9 | 0.6 | — | 100% | 2024-25 Big-Game Drawing Odds... · sheet1 row 215 |
| 2023 | 18 | 13 | 0.7 | — | 95% | 2023 Big-Game Complete Drawing... · sheet1 row 215 |
Other licenses valid in GMU 2B
Legal cartridges for deer in New Mexico
From the New Mexico hunting laws rules on file for a rifle. "Depends" means the rule turns on your specific load — check the state page.
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How to read these numbers
Every percentage on this page is a prior-draw probability: the chance an applicant with that many points would have drawn in the draw year shown, computed from the agency's published results. It is not a forecast — quotas, applicant numbers, and point creep change every year. Every figure links to the agency document it came from. Where a state does not publish a number, we show a dash, never a zero. Hunts with fewer than five tags show counts instead of percentages. Fees show the fee year used. Read the methodology for the engine details.
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This page is informational only. Draw rules, quotas, fees, and deadlines are set by the state agency and change by commission action — confirm everything on the agency's own site before you apply, and apply through the agency, not here. We disclaim all liability for reliance on this page.