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New Mexico Deer · GMU 13

New Mexico GMU 13 spans 2,847,763 acres, centered 42 miles west of Belen. 48% of it is public land, mostly BLM (19%) and state trust land (11%). A further 25% is tribal land rather than public land. In 2025, 689 people hunted deer here and took 140, a 20% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, DER-1-180, put up 9 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 35 nonresident first-choice applicants, 8 of whom drew.

No points in this draw. Every applicant has the same chance each year.

Tags, 2026
89

12 licenses · NR capped at 6%

Applicants
135

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
20%

2025, all licenses

Public Land
48%

26% BLM

Size
4,450 mi²

2,847,763 acres

Belen Grants Socorro Albuquerque Rio Rancho 13
20%hunter success 2025 · 689 hunters, 140 deer

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.

Best Bets

Ranked by your odds times how often that license type's hunters filled their tag in 2025. Nonresident, first choice, 2026 draw; licenses with at least 10 tags that anyone can buy.

DER-1-180
Outfitter · buck
100%
Unit 13 — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal — Nov. 7-11
Success
20%
Season
Nov 7–11
Tags / Apps
14 / 8
If Drawn
$502
DER-2-183
Outfitter · buck
61%
Unit 13 — fork-antlered deer — Bow — Sept. 1-24
Success
20%
Season
Sep 1–24
Tags / Apps
12 / 18
If Drawn
$502
DER-3-185
Standard · buck
100%
Unit 13 — fork-antlered deer — Muzzle — Oct. 31-Nov.4
Success
20%
Season
Oct 31 – Nov 4
Tags / Apps
12 / 9
If Drawn
$502

Every License in GMU 13

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
DER-1-180 Standard 23%
Outfitter 100%
DER-1-181 Standard 30%
Outfitter 100%
DER-1-182 Standard · youth 0% (small sample)
Outfitter · youth 100% (small sample)
DER-2-183 Standard 100%
Outfitter 61%
DER-2-184 Standard 20%
Outfitter 29%
DER-3-185 Standard 100%
Outfitter not open

First-choice nonresident odds, 2026 draw. No points in this draw: every applicant has the same chance.

Draw results: NMDGF 2026 Big Game Drawing Odds Complete Report, retrieved Aug 31, 2026.

If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): Standard $502 ($492 to apply) · Outfitter $502 ($492 to apply). Closes Mar 17, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

Harvest

Year Hunters Deer Success
2025 689 140 20%
2024 701 133 19%
2023 (summed) 378 114 30%
2022 703 121 17%
2021 (summed) 396 131 33%
2025 by LicenseHuntersDeerSuccess
Reg · muzzleloader · 200 licenses 173 27 16%
Reg · rifle · 22 licenses 20 3 17%
Reg · rifle · 27 licenses 24 3 13%
Youth 1 0 0%
Reg · archery · 11 licenses 10 0 0%
Reg · archery · 5 licenses 5 2 40%
Reg · rifle · 55 licenses 48 31 64%
Reg · archery · 35 licenses 32 27 85%
Reg · archery · 25 licenses 24 8 35%
Reg · muzzleloader · 55 licenses 52 35 67%

2025 split: muzzleloader 62 (46%) from 225 hunters, 28%, rifle 37 (27%) from 93 hunters, 40%, archery 37 (27%) from 71 hunters, 52%

What New Mexico Department of Game and Fish publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. New Mexico Department of Game and Fish publishes no whole-GMU line for some years; a year's total is the sum of published rows, added only where the lines do not overlap. Source: NMDGF 2025-2026 Deer Harvest Report; NMDGF 2024-2025 Deer Harvest Report; NMDGF 2023-2024 Deer Harvest Report.

The Ground

Tribal 718,193 ac 25%
BLM 538,483 ac 19%
State trust land 310,048 ac 11%
National Forest 308,806 ac 11%
National Park Service 108,481 ac 4%
National Wildlife Refuge 87,249 ac 3%
State land 1,518 ac <1%
Private or other non-public land 774,983 ac 27%

Source: U.S. Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico State Office 2023 BLM_Surface_Management_2023.

Next Door

What the Agency Says About the Area

GMU 13: Beginning at the junction of NM 53 and I-40 west of Grants and running east along I-40 to its junction with NM 6, then southeast along NM 6 to its junction with I-25 at Los Lunas, then south along I-25 to its junction with US 60 at Socorro, then west along US 60 to its junction with NM 12 at Datil, then southwest along NM 12 to its junction with Catron county road B034, then northwest...

Source: NMDGF 2026 NM Game Management Units, layer 0.

▸ Sources 10
  1. NMDGF 2026 Big Game Drawing Odds Complete Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  2. NMDGF 2026-2027 Draw Hunt License Fees / Draw… fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  3. NMDGF 2026-2027 Over-the-Counter License Fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  4. NMDGF 2025-2026 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  5. NMDGF 2024-2025 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  6. NMDGF 2023-2024 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  7. NMDGF 2022-2023 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  8. NMDGF 2021-2022 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  9. NMDGF 2026 NM Game Management Units, layer 0 boundary, area description, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  10. U.S. Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico State Office 2023 BLM_Surface_Management_2023 land ownership, retrieved Sep 1, 2026

About These Numbers

Odds are from the 2026 draw, the latest on file, computed from New Mexico Department of Game and Fish's published results. They are what happened in that draw, not a forecast. Under five tags a percentage carries a *, because one applicant either way swings it. A dash means the agency did not publish the number, and a date marked expected is last cycle's schedule rolled forward.

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