New Mexico Elk ELK-3-204 — GMU 52

Unit 52 mobility impaired only — mature bull — Muzzle - Mobility — Oct. 10-14

GMU 52 within New Mexico

What you may take: Unit 52 mobility impaired only — mature bull — Muzzle - Mobility — Oct. 10-14 (male)
Weapon: Muzzleloader
Where: GMU 52; 95% public of 268,846 acres
Season (2026): Oct 10–14, 2026
Tags (2026): 3; for 1 first-choice applicants · nonresidents capped at 6%
Hunter success here (2025): 40%; of everyone who hunted the area

Showing nonresident results (Standard class). Switch to resident · Standard Outfitter

Odds by point level — 2026 draw

Undersubscribed: 1 of 3 tags claimed by first-choice nonresident applicants in 2026. Everyone who applied drew and the rest went to the leftover draw — the 100% reflects low demand, not a great tag. A code like this can flip the year demand catches up.

Prior-draw probability for a first-choice nonresident applicant. 3 tags, 1 first-choice applicants. Source: 2026 Big Game Drawing Odds... · sheet1 row 817.

Points	Your chance	Applicants	Drawn
0	100%	—	—

Fewer applicants than tags. A dash means New Mexico Department of Game and Fish did not publish a count for that level. How we compute these.

What it costs (2026 nonresident fees)

Cash to apply

$867

Out of pocket if unsuccessful

$107

Total if drawn

$877

Refunded if unsuccessful

$760

At the 2026 odds, expected cost per hunt-year ranges from $877 (enough points to draw) .

Nonresident draw application fee (per species, nonrefundable; included in the printed draw price) · paid at application $13 source

Nonresident Game-Hunting License (must be purchased, nonrefundable, before applying for any big-game draw) · paid at application $90 source

Habitat Management and Access Validation (HMAV), mandatory age 18+, added automatically with the Game-Hunting License · paid at application $4 source

Habitat Stamp (required to hunt on BLM and Forest Service land; buy by May 15 to be printed on the licence/tag) · paid if drawn $10 source

Nonresident Standard Elk License, mature bull or either sex (printed draw price $773 incl. $13 application fee); charged at application, refunded if unsuccessful. Quality / high-demand hunt codes are $998 printed · paid at application, refundable $760 source

Next application window: closes Mar 18, 2027 (expected) · results ~April 22. Last cycle's schedule rolled forward — confirm when the agency publishes.

Point creep & years to draw

No points in this draw — every applicant has the same chance each year, so there is no cut to creep and nothing to build toward.

Seasons (2026)

Split 1: Oct 10–14, 2026 p. sheet1 row 817

How this tag has hunted

Across every license type in GMU 52, New Mexico Department of Game and Fish counted 1,458 hunters and 488 elk taken in 2025 — 40% of them killed something. Full GMU 52 profile: maps, public land, five years of harvest →

Post-season survey, not draw statistics. Source: 2025-2026 Elk Harvest Report 2024-2025 Elk Harvest Report

As a lower choice

2nd choice

Drawn at this choice ÷ applicants listing it at this choice, as published. Points do not help a lower choice.

3rd choice

25%

Drawn at this choice ÷ applicants listing it at this choice, as published. Points do not help a lower choice.

Year by year

The standard draw for nonresidents, one row per year.

Year	Tags	Applicants	Applicants per tag	Points needed	Published odds	Source
2026	3	1	0.3	—	27%	2026 Big Game Drawing Odds... · sheet1 row 817
2025	3	3	1.0	—	33%	2025-26 Big-Game Drawing Odds... · sheet1 row 819
2024	3	2	0.7	—	43%	2024-25 Big-Game Drawing Odds... · sheet1 row 828
2023	3	0	0.0	—	60%	2023 Big-Game Complete Drawing... · sheet1 row 827

Other licenses valid in GMU 52

High demand — Unit 52 — mature bull — Any Legal — Oct. 17-21 Rifle High demand — Unit 52 — mature bull — Any Legal — Oct. 24-28 Rifle ELK-1-209 — Unit 52 youth only — antlerless — Any Legal - NM — Nov. 14-18 Rifle ELK-1-210 — Unit 52 mobility impaired only — antlerless — Any Legal - NM — Nov. 21-25 Rifle ELK-1-211 — Unit 52 — antlerless — Any Legal - NM — Nov. 21-25 Rifle ELK-1-212 — Unit 52 — antlerless — Any Legal - NM — Dec. 5-9 Rifle High demand — Unit 52 — either sex — Bow — Sept. 1-14 Archery High demand — Unit 52 — either sex — Bow — Sept. 15-24 Archery High demand — Unit 52 — mature bull — Muzzle — Oct. 10-14 Muzzleloader ELK-3-206 — Unit 52 — antlerless — Muzzle - NM — Oct. 10-14 Muzzleloader

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How to read these numbers

Every percentage on this page is a prior-draw probability: the chance an applicant with that many points would have drawn in the draw year shown, computed from the agency's published results. It is not a forecast — quotas, applicant numbers, and point creep change every year. Every figure links to the agency document it came from. Where a state does not publish a number, we show a dash, never a zero. Hunts with fewer than five tags show counts instead of percentages. Fees show the fee year used. Read the methodology for the engine details.

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