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New Mexico Deer — GMU 45

New Mexico GMU 45 covers 976,072 acres and lies 18 miles north of Pecos. 78% of it is public land, mostly national forest (67%) and BLM (9%). In 2025, 345 people hunted deer here and took 207 — 60% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 25 tags here for 61 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2026):133 Nonresident share:capped at 6% Applicants:370 Hunter success (2025):60% Public land:78% Size:976,072 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every deer license type on offer in GMU 45, 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 · 133 tags · 370 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-1-369 Unit 45 — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal — Oct. 31-Nov.4 15 tags · 86 applicants · Standard
    12% Long shot 1% as 2nd choice
  • DER-1-369 Unit 45 — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal — Oct. 31-Nov.4 25 tags · 61 applicants · Outfitter
    25% Long shot 9% as 2nd choice
  • DER-1-370 Unit 45: mobility impaired only — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal - Mobility — Nov. 7-11 2 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    100% No first-choice applicants
  • DER-1-370 Unit 45: mobility impaired only — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal - Mobility — Nov. 7-11 2 tags · 2 applicants · Outfitter
    100% Undersubscribed
  • DER-1-371 Unit 45 — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal — Nov. 7-11 15 tags · 87 applicants · Standard
    9% Long shot 4% as 2nd choice
  • DER-1-371 Unit 45 — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal — Nov. 7-11 25 tags · 27 applicants · Outfitter
    41% Real chance 15% as 2nd choice
  • DER-1-372 Unit 45: youth only — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal — Nov. 21-29 2 tags · 13 applicants · Standard
    8% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • DER-1-372 Unit 45: youth only — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal — Nov. 21-29 2 tags · 19 applicants · Outfitter
    0% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • DER-2-373 Unit 45 — fork-antlered deer — Bow — Sept. 1-24 10 tags · 34 applicants · Standard
    15% Long shot 12% as 2nd choice
  • DER-2-373 Unit 45 — fork-antlered deer — Bow — Sept. 1-24 10 tags · 3 applicants · Outfitter
    100% Undersubscribed 30% as 2nd choice
  • DER-3-374 Unit 45 — fork-antlered deer — Muzzle — Sept. 27-Oct.3 9 tags · 25 applicants · Standard
    16% Long shot 10% as 2nd choice
  • DER-3-374 Unit 45 — fork-antlered deer — Muzzle — Sept. 27-Oct.3 16 tags · 13 applicants · Outfitter
    100% Likely draw 29% as 2nd choice
What these columns mean
Your odds
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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

Pecos Española Edgewood Questa Rio Communities
GMU 45 within New Mexico
42 43 47 48 49 50 51A 51B 53 54 5A 5B 6A 6C 8 9 Pecos Española Taos Edgewood Moriarty
GMU 45 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

  • National Forest 653,377 ac · 67%
  • BLM 91,114 ac · 9%
  • Tribal 44,866 ac · 5%
  • State trust land 12,225 ac · 1%
  • National Park Service 6,339 ac · 1%
  • State land 81 ac · 0%
  • Private or other non-public land 168,069 ac · 17%

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 345 207 60%
2024 385 193 50%
2023 326 155 48%
2022 928 327 35%
2021 995 376 38%

What people carried (2025 harvest)

  • Rifle 307 · 89% · 528 hunters, 58% success
  • Archery 27 · 8% · 65 hunters, 42% success
  • Muzzleloader 10 · 3% · 22 hunters, 45% success

What the agency says about the area

GMU 45: Beginning at Glorieta on US 84, and running west and north along US 84 to its intersection with NM 68 at Espanola, then northeast along NM 68 to its intersection with NM 75 at Embudo, then east along NM 75 to its intersection with NM 518, then east along NM 518 to its intersection with the Santa Fe national forest boundary line near Holman hill, then south along the Santa Fe national...

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