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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, 615 people hunted deer here and took 344, a 56% success rate (sum of published weapon rows). Its most applied-for hunt, DER-1-371, put up 15 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 87 nonresident first-choice applicants, 8 of whom drew.

No points in this draw. Every applicant has the same chance each year.

Tags, 2026
133

12 licenses · NR capped at 6%

Applicants
370

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
56%

2025, all licenses

Public Land
78%

81% Forest Service

Size
1,525 mi²

976,072 acres

Pecos Española Taos Edgewood Bernalillo 45
56%hunter success 2025 · 615 hunters, 344 deer

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.

DER-1-369
Outfitter · buck
25%
Unit 45 — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal — Oct. 31-Nov.4
Success
56%
Season
Oct 31 – Nov 4
Tags / Apps
25 / 61
If Drawn
$502
DER-1-371
Outfitter · buck
41%
Unit 45 — fork-antlered deer — Any Legal — Nov. 7-11
Success
56%
Season
Nov 7–11
Tags / Apps
25 / 27
If Drawn
$502
DER-2-373
Outfitter · buck
100%
Unit 45 — fork-antlered deer — Bow — Sept. 1-24
Success
56%
Season
Sep 1–24
Tags / Apps
10 / 3
If Drawn
$502
DER-3-374
Outfitter · buck
100%
Unit 45 — fork-antlered deer — Muzzle — Sept. 27-Oct.3
Success
56%
Season
Sep 27 – Oct 3
Tags / Apps
16 / 13
If Drawn
$502

Every License in GMU 45

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
DER-1-369 Standard 12%
Outfitter 25%
DER-1-370 Standard · hunters 100% (small sample)
Outfitter · hunters 100% (small sample)
DER-1-371 Standard 9%
Outfitter 41%
DER-1-372 Standard · youth 8% (small sample)
Outfitter · youth 0% (small sample)
DER-2-373 Standard 15%
Outfitter 100%
DER-3-374 Standard 16%
Outfitter 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 (summed) 615 344 56%
2024 (summed) 655 293 45%
2023 (summed) 588 263 45%
2022 928 327 35%
2021 995 376 38%
2025 by LicenseHuntersDeerSuccess
Reg · rifle · 55 licenses 51 28 56%
Mip 2 1 50%
Reg · rifle · 89 licenses 79 40 50%
Youth 58 40 70%
Reg · archery · 18 licenses 17 7 40%
Reg · muzzleloader · 17 licenses 15 6 43%
Reg · rifle · 150 licenses 146 89 61%
Reg · rifle · 177 licenses 154 96 62%
Reg · archery · 40 licenses 38 18 48%
Reg · muzzleloader · 8 licenses 7 4 60%
Reg · rifle · 25 licenses 20 7 33%
Reg · rifle · 20 licenses 18 6 31%
Reg · archery · 10 licenses 10 2 20%

2025 split: rifle 307 (89%) from 528 hunters, 58%, archery 27 (8%) from 65 hunters, 42%, muzzleloader 10 (3%) from 22 hunters, 45%

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 2025; a year's total is the sum of published weapon 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 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 <1%
Private or other non-public land 168,069 ac 17%

Source: U.S. Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico State Office 2023 BLM_Surface_Management_2023.

Next Door

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: NMDGF 2026 NM Game Management Units, layer 0.

▸ Sources 10
  1. NMDGF 2026 Big Game Drawing Odds Complete Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  2. NMDGF 2026-2027 Draw Hunt License Fees / Draw… fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  3. NMDGF 2026-2027 Over-the-Counter License Fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  4. NMDGF 2025-2026 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  5. NMDGF 2024-2025 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  6. NMDGF 2023-2024 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  7. NMDGF 2022-2023 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  8. NMDGF 2021-2022 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  9. NMDGF 2026 NM Game Management Units, layer 0 boundary, area description, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  10. 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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