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New Mexico Deer — GMU 23

New Mexico GMU 23 covers 1,874,149 acres and lies 18 miles west of Silver City. 74% of it is public land, mostly state trust land (33%) and national forest (24%). In 2025, 239 people hunted deer here and took 78 — 33% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 45 tags here for 26 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2026):305 Nonresident share:capped at 6% Applicants:850 Hunter success (2025):33% Public land:74% Size:1,874,149 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every deer license type on offer in GMU 23, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

No points in this draw — every nonresident applicant has the same chance.

38 licenses on offer · 305 tags · 850 applicants in the 2026 draw

Chances are from the 2026 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.

Simple view Odds at every point level
  • DER-1-234 Unit 23: except the Burro mountains hunt area — fork-antlered mule deer — Any Legal — Nov. 7-11 27 tags · 96 applicants · Standard
    21% Long shot 6% as 2nd choice
  • DER-1-234 Unit 23: except the Burro mountains hunt area — fork-antlered mule deer — Any Legal — Nov. 7-11 24 tags · 1 applicants · Outfitter
    100% Undersubscribed 67% as 2nd choice
  • DER-1-235 Unit 23: except the Burro mountains hunt area — fork-antlered mule deer — Any Legal — Nov. 14-18 27 tags · 44 applicants · Standard
    25% Long shot 8% as 2nd choice
  • DER-1-235 Unit 23: except the Burro mountains hunt area — fork-antlered mule deer — Any Legal — Nov. 14-18 10 tags · 3 applicants · Outfitter
    100% Undersubscribed 50% as 2nd choice
  • DER-1-236 Unit 23: except the Burro mountains hunt area — fork-antlered white-tailed deer — Any Legal — Nov. 21-25 6 tags · 36 applicants · Standard
    6% Long shot 4% as 2nd choice
  • DER-1-236 Unit 23: except the Burro mountains hunt area — fork-antlered white-tailed deer — Any Legal — Nov. 21-25 10 tags · 6 applicants · Outfitter
    100% Likely draw 18% as 2nd choice
  • DER-1-237 Unit 23: except the Burro mountains hunt area — fork-antlered white-tailed deer — Any Legal — Dec. 5-13 3 tags · 79 applicants · Standard
    1% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • DER-1-237 Unit 23: except the Burro mountains hunt area — fork-antlered white-tailed deer — Any Legal — Dec. 5-13 5 tags · 19 applicants · Outfitter
    11% Long shot 1% as 2nd choice
  • DER-1-238 Unit 23: except the Burro mountains hunt area, youth only — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal — Nov. 21-29 5 tags · 15 applicants · Standard
    7% Long shot 18% as 2nd choice
  • DER-1-238 Unit 23: except the Burro mountains hunt area, youth only — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal — Nov. 21-29 7 tags · 1 applicants · Outfitter
    100% Undersubscribed 67% as 2nd choice
  • DER-1-245 Unit 23: Burro mountains hunt area only — fork-antlered mule deer — Any Legal — Nov. 7-15 2 tags · 40 applicants · Standard
    5% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • DER-1-245 Unit 23: Burro mountains hunt area only — fork-antlered mule deer — Any Legal — Nov. 7-15 3 tags · 32 applicants · Outfitter
    6% Long shot 8% as 2nd choice
  • DER-1-246 Unit 23: Burro mountains hunt area only — fork-antlered white-tailed deer — Any Legal — Dec. 5-13 2 tags · 180 applicants · Standard
    1% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • DER-1-246 Unit 23: Burro mountains hunt area only — fork-antlered white-tailed deer — Any Legal — Dec. 5-13 4 tags · 121 applicants · Outfitter
    3% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • DER-1-247 Unit 23: Burro mountains hunt area only, youth only — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal — Nov. 21-29 2 tags · 21 applicants · Standard
    10% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • DER-1-247 Unit 23: Burro mountains hunt area only, youth only — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal — Nov. 21-29 2 tags · 7 applicants · Outfitter
    14% Long shot 7% as 2nd choice
  • DER-2-239 Unit 23: except the Burro mountains hunt area — fork-antlered mule deer — Bow — Sept. 1-24 45 tags · 26 applicants · Standard
    100% Likely draw 50% as 2nd choice
  • DER-2-239 Unit 23: except the Burro mountains hunt area — fork-antlered mule deer — Bow — Sept. 1-24 3 tags · 1 applicants · Outfitter
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • DER-2-240 Unit 23: except the Burro mountains hunt area — fork-antlered mule deer — Bow — Jan. 1-15, ‘27 3 tags · 14 applicants · Standard
    21% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • DER-2-240 Unit 23: except the Burro mountains hunt area — fork-antlered mule deer — Bow — Jan. 1-15, ‘27 5 tags · 4 applicants · Outfitter
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • DER-2-241 Unit 23: except the Burro mountains hunt area — fork-antlered white-tailed deer — Bow — Sept. 1-24 12 tags · 3 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 25% as 2nd choice
  • DER-2-241 Unit 23: except the Burro mountains hunt area — fork-antlered white-tailed deer — Bow — Sept. 1-24 0 tags · 0 applicants · Outfitter
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • DER-2-242 Unit 23: except the Burro mountains hunt area — fork-antlered white-tailed deer — Bow — Jan. 16-31, ‘27 7 tags · 13 applicants · Standard
    15% Long shot 7% as 2nd choice
  • DER-2-242 Unit 23: except the Burro mountains hunt area — fork-antlered white-tailed deer — Bow — Jan. 16-31, ‘27 1 tags · 1 applicants · Outfitter
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • DER-2-248 Unit 23: Burro mountains hunt area only — fork-antlered mule deer — Bow — Jan. 1-15, ‘27 2 tags · 18 applicants · Standard
    11% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • DER-2-248 Unit 23: Burro mountains hunt area only — fork-antlered mule deer — Bow — Jan. 1-15, ‘27 4 tags · 12 applicants · Outfitter
    8% Long shot 60% as 2nd choice
  • DER-2-249 Unit 23: Burro mountains hunt area only — fork-antlered white-tailed deer — Bow — Sept. 1-24 1 tags · 1 applicants · Standard
    100% Likely draw 100% as 2nd choice
  • DER-2-249 Unit 23: Burro mountains hunt area only — fork-antlered white-tailed deer — Bow — Sept. 1-24 2 tags · 2 applicants · Outfitter
    100% Undersubscribed
  • DER-2-250 Unit 23: Burro mountains hunt area only — fork-antlered white-tailed deer — Bow — Jan. 16-31, ‘27 3 tags · 15 applicants · Standard
    13% Long shot 6% as 2nd choice
  • DER-2-250 Unit 23: Burro mountains hunt area only — fork-antlered white-tailed deer — Bow — Jan. 16-31, ‘27 4 tags · 4 applicants · Outfitter
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • DER-3-243 Unit 23: except the Burro mountains hunt area — fork-antlered mule deer — Muzzle — Oct. 31-Nov.4 43 tags · 17 applicants · Standard
    100% Likely draw 39% as 2nd choice
  • DER-3-243 Unit 23: except the Burro mountains hunt area — fork-antlered mule deer — Muzzle — Oct. 31-Nov.4 0 tags · 0 applicants · Outfitter
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • DER-3-244 Unit 23: except the Burro mountains hunt area — fork-antlered white-tailed deer — Muzzle — Oct. 31-Nov.4 21 tags · 4 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 53% as 2nd choice
  • DER-3-244 Unit 23: except the Burro mountains hunt area — fork-antlered white-tailed deer — Muzzle — Oct. 31-Nov.4 0 tags · 0 applicants · Outfitter
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • DER-3-251 Unit 23: Burro mountains hunt area only — fork-antlered mule deer — Muzzle — Oct. 31-Nov.4 2 tags · 6 applicants · Standard
    17% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • DER-3-251 Unit 23: Burro mountains hunt area only — fork-antlered mule deer — Muzzle — Oct. 31-Nov.4 4 tags · 2 applicants · Outfitter
    100% Undersubscribed 100% as 2nd choice
  • DER-3-252 Unit 23: Burro mountains hunt area only — fork-antlered white-tailed deer — Muzzle — Oct. 31-Nov.4 2 tags · 6 applicants · Standard
    17% Long shot 33% as 2nd choice
  • DER-3-252 Unit 23: Burro mountains hunt area only — fork-antlered white-tailed deer — Muzzle — Oct. 31-Nov.4 2 tags · 0 applicants · Outfitter
    100% No first-choice applicants 100% as 2nd choice
What these columns mean
Your odds
—
the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2026 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year.
The badge
—
plain language for that number. Likely draw 75% or better · Real chance 40%+ · Long shot 15%+ · Point builder below that, so you are applying mainly to bank a point · Undersubscribed means fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
As 2nd choice
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New Mexico lets you name more than one hunt on the application. Miss on your first choice and you go into the pot for whatever tags are left, alongside everyone else's second choices. Points never help a lower choice, so this number is the same whatever you have banked — it is usually worth naming a hunt that goes undersubscribed.
Points needed
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the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2026 draw, and how that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold.
Tags / applicants
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tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them. Under five tags we print counts instead of a percentage, because one applicant either way swings it.

What it costs to apply (2026 nonresident fees)

License Up front Gone if you miss If you draw
Standard license $492 $107 $502
Outfitter license $492 $107 $502

Application window: closes Mar 18, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

The country

Silver City Lordsburg Truth or Consequences Columbus Las Cruces
GMU 23 within New Mexico
12 13 15 16 17 18 19 29 20 21 22 28 24 25 26 27 34 36 38 Silver City Lordsburg Truth or Consequences Columbus Las Cruces
GMU 23 and its neighbours
Zoomable USGS topo, aerial imagery and shaded relief, with the neighboring areas drawn on.

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

Who owns the ground

  • State trust land 612,097 ac · 33%
  • National Forest 449,895 ac · 24%
  • BLM 329,239 ac · 18%
  • Department of Defense 2,140 ac · 0%
  • State land 1,964 ac · 0%
  • Private or other non-public land 478,811 ac · 26%

Source: BLM_Surface_Management_2023 (BLM New Mexico State Office Surface Management Agency layer)

Nearby areas

How the hunting has gone

What New Mexico Department of Game and Fish publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast.

Season Hunters Harvest Success
2025 239 78 33%
2022 1,843 525 28%
2021 1,816 411 23%

What people carried (2025 harvest)

  • Archery 114 · 20% · 381 hunters, 30% success
  • Muzzleloader 111 · 19% · 572 hunters, 19% success
  • Rifle 353 · 61% · 1,077 hunters, 33% success

What the agency says about the area

GMU 23: Beginning at the intersection of US 180 and the NM/AZ state line west of Luna, then south along the state line to its intersection with US 70, then southeast along US 70 to its junction with US 180 at Deming: then northwest along US 180 to its junction with the NM/AZ state line. Burro Mountain Hunt Area: The Big Burro Mountain portion of the Gila National Forest in GMU 23,...

Source: NM Game Management Units (NMDGF_Game_Management_Units_I_E__v2_WFL1), layer 0

Boundary: NM Game Management Units (NMDGF_Game_Management_Units_I_E__v2_WFL1), layer 0

Harvest: 2025-2026 Deer Harvest Report

Harvest: 2022-2023 Deer Harvest Report

Harvest: 2021-2022 Deer Harvest Report

How we compute draw odds · All New Mexico deer hunts