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New Mexico Deer — GMU 4

New Mexico GMU 4 covers 443,634 acres and lies 54 miles west of Questa. 15% of it is public land, mostly state land (13%) and state trust land (1%). In 2025, 448 people hunted deer here and took 197 — 44% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 45 tags here for 39 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2026):142 Nonresident share:capped at 6% Applicants:169 Hunter success (2025):44% Public land:15% Size:443,634 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every deer license type on offer in GMU 4, 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.

22 licenses on offer · 142 tags · 169 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-1-133 Unit 4: Humphries/Rio Chama/Sargent WMAs only — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal — Oct. 24-28 0 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • DER-1-133 Unit 4: Humphries/Rio Chama/Sargent WMAs only — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal — Oct. 24-28 2 tags · 6 applicants · Outfitter
    33% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • DER-1-134 Unit 4: Humphries/Rio Chama/Sargent WMAs only, youth only — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal - Youth — Oct. 24-28 0 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • DER-1-134 Unit 4: Humphries/Rio Chama/Sargent WMAs only, youth only — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal - Youth — Oct. 24-28 0 tags · 0 applicants · Outfitter
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • DER-1-135 Unit 4: private land only — fork-antlered deer 45 tags · 39 applicants · Standard
    100% Likely draw 75% as 2nd choice
  • DER-1-135 Unit 4: private land only — fork-antlered deer 8 tags · 7 applicants · Outfitter
    100% Undersubscribed 100% as 2nd choice
  • DER-1-136 Unit 4: Humphries/Rio Chama/Sargent WMAs only — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal — Oct. 31-Nov.4 0 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • DER-1-136 Unit 4: Humphries/Rio Chama/Sargent WMAs only — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal — Oct. 31-Nov.4 2 tags · 2 applicants · Outfitter
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • DER-1-137 Unit 4: private land only — fork-antlered deer 11 tags · 25 applicants · Standard
    28% Long shot 14% as 2nd choice
  • DER-1-137 Unit 4: private land only — fork-antlered deer 13 tags · 9 applicants · Outfitter
    100% Undersubscribed 100% as 2nd choice
  • DER-1-138 Unit 4: Humphries/Rio Chama/Sargent WMAs only — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal — Nov. 14-18 0 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • DER-1-138 Unit 4: Humphries/Rio Chama/Sargent WMAs only — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal — Nov. 14-18 1 tags · 12 applicants · Outfitter
    8% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • DER-1-139 Unit 4: private land only — fork-antlered deer 0 tags · 4 applicants · Standard
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • DER-1-139 Unit 4: private land only — fork-antlered deer 1 tags · 6 applicants · Outfitter
    17% Long shot
  • DER-1-140 Unit 4: Humphries/Rio Chama/Sargent WMAs only, youth only — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal - Youth — Nov. 25-29 0 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • DER-1-140 Unit 4: Humphries/Rio Chama/Sargent WMAs only, youth only — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal - Youth — Nov. 25-29 0 tags · 1 applicants · Outfitter
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • DER-2-141 Unit 4: Humphries/Rio Chama/Sargent WMAs only — fork-antlered deer — Bow — Sept. 1-24 0 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • DER-2-141 Unit 4: Humphries/Rio Chama/Sargent WMAs only — fork-antlered deer — Bow — Sept. 1-24 0 tags · 0 applicants · Outfitter
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • DER-2-142 Unit 4: private land only — fork-antlered deer 27 tags · 28 applicants · Standard
    96% Likely draw
  • DER-2-142 Unit 4: private land only — fork-antlered deer 18 tags · 18 applicants · Outfitter
    100% Undersubscribed
  • DER-3-143 Unit 4: private land only — fork-antlered deer 10 tags · 8 applicants · Standard
    100% Undersubscribed 29% as 2nd choice
  • DER-3-143 Unit 4: private land only — fork-antlered deer 4 tags · 4 applicants · Outfitter
    100% Undersubscribed
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
—
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
—
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

Questa Española Aztec Pecos Albuquerque
GMU 4 within New Mexico
2B 50 51A 51B 52 5A 5B
GMU 4 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 land 59,291 ac · 13%
  • Tribal 36,870 ac · 8%
  • State trust land 3,887 ac · 1%
  • BLM 3,865 ac · 1%
  • National Forest 610 ac · 0%
  • Private or other non-public land 339,109 ac · 76%

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 448 197 44%
2024 457 145 32%
2023 436 166 38%
2022 444 173 39%
2021 495 223 45%

What people carried (2025 harvest)

  • Archery 15 · 8% · 89 hunters, 17% success
  • Rifle 168 · 85% · 325 hunters, 52% success
  • Muzzleloader 14 · 7% · 41 hunters, 34% success

What the agency says about the area

GMU 4: Beginning at the junction of the east boundary of the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation and the NM/CO state line and running east along the state line to the eastern boundary of the Tierra Amarilla Grant, then south along the east boundary of the Tierra Amarilla Grant and west along its south boundary to its junction with the east boundary of the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation,...

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