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New Mexico Deer — GMU 2C

New Mexico GMU 2C covers 516,408 acres and lies 25 miles south-east of Bloomfield and 35 miles south-east of Farmington. 92% of it is public land, mostly BLM (87%) and state trust land (3%). In 2025, 113 people hunted deer here and took 43 — 38% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 5 tags here for 264 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2026):22 Nonresident share:capped at 6% Applicants:5,632 Hunter success (2025):38% Public land:92% Size:516,408 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every deer license type on offer in GMU 2C, 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.

12 licenses on offer · 22 tags · 5,632 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-1-127 Unit 2C — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal — Nov. 14-18 1 tags · 2,593 applicants · Standard
    <1% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • DER-1-127 Unit 2C — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal — Nov. 14-18 3 tags · 2,165 applicants · Outfitter
    <1% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • DER-1-128 Unit 2C: private land only — fork-antlered deer 0 tags · 1 applicants · Standard
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • DER-1-128 Unit 2C: private land only — fork-antlered deer 1 tags · 0 applicants · Outfitter
    100% No first-choice applicants
  • DER-2-129 Unit 2C — fork-antlered deer — Bow — Jan. 1-15, ‘27 3 tags · 506 applicants · Standard
    <1% Long shot <1% as 2nd choice
  • DER-2-129 Unit 2C — fork-antlered deer — Bow — Jan. 1-15, ‘27 5 tags · 264 applicants · Outfitter
    2% Long shot <1% as 2nd choice
  • DER-2-130 Unit 2C: private land only — fork-antlered deer 2 tags · 1 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed
  • DER-2-130 Unit 2C: private land only — fork-antlered deer 2 tags · 0 applicants · Outfitter
    100% No first-choice applicants
  • DER-3-131 Unit 2C — fork-antlered deer — Muzzle — Sept. 27-Oct.3 1 tags · 78 applicants · Standard
    0% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • DER-3-131 Unit 2C — fork-antlered deer — Muzzle — Sept. 27-Oct.3 2 tags · 23 applicants · Outfitter
    0% Long shot 1% as 2nd choice
  • DER-3-132 Unit 2C: private land only — fork-antlered deer 1 tags · 1 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed
  • DER-3-132 Unit 2C: private land only — fork-antlered deer 1 tags · 0 applicants · Outfitter
    100% No first-choice applicants
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
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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

Bloomfield Milan Española Questa Belen
GMU 2C within New Mexico
2A 2B 5A 5B 7 Bloomfield
GMU 2C 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

  • BLM 447,008 ac · 87%
  • Tribal 25,407 ac · 5%
  • State trust land 14,633 ac · 3%
  • National Forest 13,549 ac · 3%
  • State land 32 ac · 0%
  • Bureau of Reclamation 9 ac · 0%
  • Private or other non-public land 15,767 ac · 3%

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 113 43 38%
2024 114 45 39%
2023 115 49 43%
2022 110 45 41%
2021 122 43 35%

What people carried (2025 harvest)

  • Rifle 33 · 92% · 70 hunters, 47% success
  • Archery 2 · 6% · 5 hunters, 40% success
  • Muzzleloader 1 · 3% · 5 hunters, 20% success

What the agency says about the area

GMU 2C: That portion of GMU 2 south and west of the following line: From the junction of US 550 and the San Juan River at Bloomfield, then east along the San Juan River to its junction with Largo Canyon, then south and east along the central wash of Largo Canyon to its junction with Cereza Canyon, then south and east along the central wash of Cereza Canyon to the Jicarilla Apache Indian...

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: 2024-2025 Deer Harvest Report

Harvest: 2023-2024 Deer Harvest Report

How we compute draw odds · All New Mexico deer hunts