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New Mexico Deer DER-2-120 — GMU 2B

Unit 2B: private land only — fork-antlered deer

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GMU 2B within New Mexico
Everything about GMU 2B
What you may take
Unit 2B: private land only — fork-antlered deer (male)
Weapon
Archery
Archery gear only — no rifle season on this license.
Where
GMU 2B
88% public of 477,550 acres
Season
—
Tags (2024)
1
for 1 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 — 2024 draw · no nonresident tags in 2026 — showing 2024

Undersubscribed: 1 of 1 tags claimed by first-choice nonresident applicants in 2024. 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. 1 tags, 1 first-choice applicants. Source: 2024-25 Big-Game Drawing Odds... · sheet1 row 380.

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)

Cash to apply
$492
Out of pocket if unsuccessful
$107
Total if drawn
$502
Refunded if unsuccessful
$385

At the 2024 odds, expected cost per hunt-year ranges from $502 (enough points to draw) .

Nonresident draw application fee (per species, nonrefundable; included in the printed draw price) · paid at application $13 source
Nonresident Game-Hunting License (must be purchased, nonrefundable, before applying for any big-game draw) · paid at application $90 source
Habitat Management and Access Validation (HMAV), mandatory age 18+, added automatically with the Game-Hunting License · paid at application $4 source
Habitat Stamp (required to hunt on BLM and Forest Service land; buy by May 15 to be printed on the licence/tag) · paid if drawn $10 source
Nonresident Standard Deer License (printed $398 incl. $13 application fee). Quality / high-demand hunt codes are $623 printed · paid at application, refundable $385 source

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

Year by year

The standard draw for nonresidents, one row per year.

Year Tags Applicants Applicants per tag Points needed Published odds Source
2026 0 0 — — — 2026 Big Game Drawing Odds... · sheet1 row 369
2025 0 0 — — — 2025-26 Big-Game Drawing Odds... · sheet1 row 371
2024 1 1 1.0 — 100% 2024-25 Big-Game Drawing Odds... · sheet1 row 380

Other licenses valid in GMU 2B

DER-1-110 — Unit 2B — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal — Oct. 24-28 Rifle DER-1-111 — Unit 2B: youth only — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal - Youth Only — Oct. 24-28 Rifle DER-1-112 — Unit 2B: private land only — fork-antlered deer Rifle DER-1-113 — Unit 2B — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal — Oct. 31-Nov.4 Rifle DER-1-114 — Unit 2B: private land only — fork-antlered deer Rifle Quality — Unit 2B — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal — Nov. 7-11 Rifle DER-1-116 — Unit 2B: private land only — fork-antlered deer Rifle High demand — Unit 2B: youth only — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal - Youth Only — Nov. 21-29 Rifle DER-2-118 — Unit 2B — fork-antlered deer — Bow — Sept. 1-24 Archery DER-2-119 — Unit 2B: youth only — fork-antlered deer — Bow - Youth Only — Sept. 1-24 Archery Quality high demand — Unit 2B — fork-antlered deer — Bow — Jan. 1-15, ‘27 Archery Quality — Unit 2B: youth only — fork-antlered deer — Bow - Youth Only — Jan. 1-15, ‘27 Archery DER-2-123 — Unit 2B: private land only — fork-antlered deer Archery DER-3-124 — Unit 2B — fork-antlered deer — Muzzle — Sept. 27-Oct.3 Muzzleloader DER-3-125 — Unit 2B: youth only — fork-antlered deer — Muzzle - Youth Only — Sept. 27-Oct.3 Muzzleloader DER-3-126 — Unit 2B: private land only — fork-antlered deer Muzzleloader
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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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