New Mexico Deer · GMU 34
New Mexico GMU 34 spans 1,085,460 acres, centered 17 miles east of Alamogordo. 73% of it is public land, mostly national forest (41%) and BLM (20%). In 2025, 2,218 people hunted deer here and took 470, a 21% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, DER-1-321, put up 39 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 151 nonresident first-choice applicants, 30 of whom drew.
No points in this draw. Every applicant has the same chance each year.
14 licenses · NR capped at 6%
first choice, NR
2025, all licenses
56% Forest Service
1,085,460 acres
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.
- Success
- 21%
- Season
- Nov 14–18
- Tags / Apps
- 29 / 21
- If Drawn
- $502
- Success
- 21%
- Season
- Nov 21–25
- Tags / Apps
- 39 / 75
- If Drawn
- $502
- Success
- 21%
- Season
- Jan 1–15
- Tags / Apps
- 10 / 6
- If Drawn
- $502
- Success
- 21%
- Season
- Nov 7–11
- Tags / Apps
- 20 / 27
- If Drawn
- $502
Every License in GMU 34
| What | Season | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| DER-1-319 Standard · hunters | Unit 34: mobility impaired only — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal - Mobility — Oct.… | 100% (small sample) | |
| DER-1-319 Outfitter · hunters | Unit 34: mobility impaired only — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal - Mobility — Oct.… | 100% (small sample) | |
| DER-1-320 Standard · youth | Unit 34: youth only — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal — Oct. 31-Nov.4 | 20% (small sample) | |
| DER-1-320 Outfitter · youth | Unit 34: youth only — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal — Oct. 31-Nov.4 | 100% (small sample) | |
| DER-1-321 Standard | Unit 34 — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal — Nov. 14-18 | 20% | |
| DER-1-321 Outfitter | Unit 34 — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal — Nov. 14-18 | 100% | |
| DER-1-322 Standard | Unit 34 — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal — Nov. 21-25 | 39% | |
| DER-1-322 Outfitter | Unit 34 — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal — Nov. 21-25 | 100% | |
| DER-2-323 Standard | Unit 34 — fork-antlered deer — Bow — Sept. 1-24 | 31% | |
| DER-2-323 Outfitter | Unit 34 — fork-antlered deer — Bow — Sept. 1-24 | 100% | |
| DER-2-324 Standard | Unit 34 — fork-antlered deer — Bow — Jan. 1-15, ‘27 | 19% | |
| DER-2-324 Outfitter | Unit 34 — fork-antlered deer — Bow — Jan. 1-15, ‘27 | 100% | |
| DER-3-325 Standard | Unit 34 — fork-antlered deer — Muzzle — Nov. 7-11 | 37% | |
| DER-3-325 Outfitter | Unit 34 — fork-antlered deer — Muzzle — Nov. 7-11 | 100% |
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 | 2,218 | 470 | 21% |
| 2024 | 2,156 | 389 | 18% |
| 2023 (summed) | 1,362 | 431 | 32% |
| 2022 | 2,342 | 443 | 19% |
| 2021 | 2,355 | 405 | 17% |
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reg · muzzleloader · 340 licenses | 295 | 45 | 15% |
| Mip | 3 | 1 | 33% |
| Youth · 5 licenses | 5 | 5 | 100% |
| Reg · rifle · 57 licenses | 46 | 15 | 32% |
| Reg · rifle · 31 licenses | 26 | 9 | 35% |
| Reg · archery · 13 licenses | 13 | 4 | 27% |
| Reg · archery · 52 licenses | 46 | 18 | 38% |
| Reg · rifle · 300 licenses (hunt 2 of 2) | 263 | 75 | 29% |
| Reg · rifle · 300 licenses (hunt 1 of 2) | 268 | 78 | 29% |
| Youth · 25 licenses | 22 | 14 | 63% |
| Reg · archery · 225 licenses | 184 | 38 | 20% |
| Reg · archery · 125 licenses | 110 | 42 | 38% |
| Reg · muzzleloader · 115 licenses | 100 | 29 | 29% |
2025 split: muzzleloader 74 (20%) from 395 hunters, 19%, rifle 197 (53%) from 633 hunters, 31%, archery 102 (27%) from 353 hunters, 29%
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
| National Forest | 447,853 ac | 41% |
| BLM | 214,094 ac | 20% |
| State trust land | 125,046 ac | 12% |
| Department of Defense | 6,367 ac | <1% |
| State land | 805 ac | <1% |
| Tribal | 68 ac | <1% |
| National Park Service | 0 ac | <1% |
| Private or other non-public land | 291,223 ac | 27% |
Source: U.S. Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico State Office 2023 BLM_Surface_Management_2023.
What the Agency Says About the Area
GMU 34: Beginning at the junction of Tulie Gate road (Otero CR B-006) and the east boundary of the White Sands missile range at Tularosa gate and running east along Tulie Gate road to its junction with Railroad avenue (Otero CR B-009), then north on Railroad avenue to its intersection with US 54, then running south along US 54 to its intersection with US 70 at Tularosa, then running northeast...
▸ Sources 10
- NMDGF 2026 Big Game Drawing Odds Complete Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- NMDGF 2026-2027 Draw Hunt License Fees / Draw… fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- NMDGF 2026-2027 Over-the-Counter License Fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- NMDGF 2025-2026 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- NMDGF 2024-2025 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- NMDGF 2023-2024 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- NMDGF 2022-2023 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- NMDGF 2021-2022 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- NMDGF 2026 NM Game Management Units, layer 0 boundary, area description, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- 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. How we compute these.
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