New Mexico Deer DER-3-109 — GMU 2A

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

What you may take
Unit 2A: private land only — fork-antlered deer (male)
Weapon
Muzzleloader
Where
GMU 2A
67% public of 501,013 acres
Season
Tags (2026)
5
for 5 first-choice applicants
Hunter success here (2025)
34%
of everyone who hunted the area

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Odds by point level — 2026 draw

Undersubscribed: 5 of 5 tags claimed by first-choice resident 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 resident applicant. 5 tags, 5 first-choice applicants. Source: 2026 Big Game Drawing Odds... · sheet1 row 470.

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 resident fees)

Cash to apply
$89
Out of pocket if unsuccessful
$36
Total if drawn
$99
Refunded if unsuccessful
$53

At the 2026 odds, expected cost per hunt-year ranges from $99 (enough points to draw) .

Resident draw application fee (per species, nonrefundable; included in the printed draw price) · paid at application $7 source
Resident Game-Hunting License (must be purchased, nonrefundable, before applying) · paid at application $25 source
Habitat Management and Access Validation (HMAV), mandatory age 18+ · paid at application $4 source
Habitat Stamp (required to hunt on BLM and Forest Service land) · paid if drawn $10 source
Resident Deer License, any fee tier (printed $60 incl. $7 application fee) · paid at application, refundable $53 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 2A, New Mexico Department of Game and Fish counted 353 hunters and 119 deer taken in 2025 — 34% of them killed something. Full GMU 2A 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 REG 41 9 21%
Type REG 21 9 41%
Type REG 3 2 67%
Type REG 15 6 43%
Type REG 1 1 100%
Type REG 236 106 45%
Type YOUTH 110 55 50%
Type REG 313 178 57%
Type REG 367 268 73%
Type YOUTH 25 24 96%
Type REG 97 9 9%
Type YOUTH 16 0 0%
Type REG 166 73 44%

Post-season survey, not draw statistics. Source: 2025-2026 Deer Harvest Report 2024-2025 Deer Harvest Report

As a lower choice

2nd choice

Nobody listed this hunt at this choice — 0.0 tags left after higher choices. Points do not help a lower choice.

3rd choice
0%

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 residents, one row per year.

Year Tags Applicants Applicants per tag Points needed Published odds Source
2026 5 5 1.0 42% 2026 Big Game Drawing Odds... · sheet1 row 470
2025 4 3 0.8 50% 2025-26 Big-Game Drawing Odds... · sheet1 row 472
2024 3 2 0.7 43% 2024-25 Big-Game Drawing Odds... · sheet1 row 481
2023 1 1 1.0 100% 2023 Big-Game Complete Drawing... · sheet1 row 480

Other licenses valid in GMU 2A

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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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