New Mexico Deer DER-2-408 — GMU 55A, Quality
Unit 55A: Valle Vidal only — fork-antlered deer — Bow — Sept. 1-24
- What you may take
- Unit 55A: Valle Vidal only — fork-antlered deer — Bow — Sept. 1-24 (male)
- Weapon
- Archery
- Archery gear only — no rifle season on this license.
- Season (2026)
- Sep 1–24, 2026
- Tags (2026)
- 0
- for 2 first-choice applicants · nonresidents capped at 6%
- Hunter success here (2022)
- 33%
- of everyone who hunted the area
Showing nonresident results (Standard class). Switch to resident · Standard Outfitter
Not open to nonresidents in 2026
New Mexico Department of Game and Fish issued no nonresident tags for this hunt in 2026 and took no nonresident applications for it.
What it costs (2026 nonresident fees)
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.
Seasons (2026)
How this tag has hunted
Across every license type in GMU 55A, New Mexico Department of Game and Fish counted 9 hunters and 3 deer taken in 2022 — 33% of them killed something. Full GMU 55A profile: maps, public land, five years of harvest →
Post-season survey, not draw statistics. Source: 2022-2023 Deer Harvest Report 2021-2022 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.
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 | 0 | 2 | — | — | 0.00% | 2026 Big Game Drawing Odds... · sheet1 row 463 |
| 2025 | 0 | 4 | — | — | 0.00% | 2025-26 Big-Game Drawing Odds... · sheet1 row 465 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0.00% | 2024-25 Big-Game Drawing Odds... · sheet1 row 474 |
Earlier years, when this number was a different hunt
New Mexico reassigns hunt numbers between years. In these years DER-2-408 stood for another gmu or weapon, so they are listed here rather than counted as this hunt's history or in its point-creep trend.
| Year · what it was | Tags | Applicants | Applicants per tag | Points needed | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 · GMU 55 | 0 | 1 | — | — | 2023 Big-Game Complete Drawing... · sheet1 row 473 |
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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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