New Mexico Deer DER-3-153 — GMU 5B, Quality

Unit 5B — fork-antlered deer — Muzzle — Sept. 27-Oct.3

GMU 5B within New Mexico

What you may take: Unit 5B — fork-antlered deer — Muzzle — Sept. 27-Oct.3 (male)
Weapon: Muzzleloader
Where: GMU 5B; 98% public of 264,652 acres
Season (2026): Sep 27 – Oct 3, 2026
Tags (2026): 0; for 0 first-choice applicants · nonresidents capped at 6%
Hunter success here (2025): 37%; 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)

Cash to apply

$492

Out of pocket if unsuccessful

$107

Total if drawn

$502

Refunded if unsuccessful

$385

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.

Seasons (2026)

Split 1: Sep 27 – Oct 3, 2026 p. sheet1 row 479

How this tag has hunted

Across every license type in GMU 5B, New Mexico Department of Game and Fish counted 465 hunters and 172 deer taken in 2025 — 37% of them killed something. Full GMU 5B profile: maps, public land, five years of harvest →

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	Applicants	Applicants per tag	Points needed	Published odds	Source
2026	0	—	—	0.00%	2026 Big Game Drawing Odds... · sheet1 row 479
2025	2	—	—	0.00%	2025-26 Big-Game Drawing Odds... · sheet1 row 481
2024	2	—	—	0.00%	2024-25 Big-Game Drawing Odds... · sheet1 row 489
2023	1	—	—	0.00%	2023 Big-Game Complete Drawing... · sheet1 row 488

Other licenses valid in GMU 5B

Quality high demand — Unit 5B — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal — Nov. 7-11 Rifle Quality — Unit 5B: youth only — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal - Youth — Nov. 21-29 Rifle Quality — Unit 5B — fork-antlered deer — Bow — Sept. 1-24 Archery

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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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