New Mexico Elk · GMU 2
New Mexico GMU 2 spans 1,494,971 acres, centered 15 miles east of Bloomfield. 82% of it is public land, mostly BLM (65%) and national forest (10%). In 2025, 891 people hunted elk here and took 424, a 49% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, ELK-1-132, put up 5 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 153 nonresident first-choice applicants, 4 of whom drew.
No points in this draw. Every applicant has the same chance each year.
12 licenses · NR capped at 6%
first choice, NR
2025, all licenses
77% BLM
1,494,971 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
- 49%
- Season
- Dec 12–16
- Tags / Apps
- 11 / 9
- If Drawn
- $877
- Success
- 49%
- Season
- Sep 1–14
- Tags / Apps
- 12 / 14
- If Drawn
- $877
- Success
- 49%
- Season
- Sep 15–24
- Tags / Apps
- 12 / 28
- If Drawn
- $877
- Success
- 49%
- Season
- Oct 10–14
- Tags / Apps
- 13 / 21
- If Drawn
- $877
Every License in GMU 2
| What | Season | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ELK-1-132 Standard | Unit 2 — mature bull — Any Legal — Oct. 17-21 | 3% | |
| ELK-1-132 Outfitter | Unit 2 — mature bull — Any Legal — Oct. 17-21 | 9% | |
| ELK-1-133 Standard | Unit 2 — antlerless — Any Legal - NM — Dec. 12-16 | not open | |
| ELK-1-133 Outfitter | Unit 2 — antlerless — Any Legal - NM — Dec. 12-16 | 100% | |
| ELK-1-134 Standard · youth | Unit 2 youth only — antlerless — Any Legal - NM — Dec. 12-16 | not open | |
| ELK-1-134 Outfitter · youth | Unit 2 youth only — antlerless — Any Legal - NM — Dec. 12-16 | 100% | |
| ELK-2-129 Standard | Unit 2 — either sex — Bow — Sept. 1-14 | 10% | |
| ELK-2-129 Outfitter | Unit 2 — either sex — Bow — Sept. 1-14 | 21% | |
| ELK-2-130 Standard | Unit 2 — either sex — Bow — Sept. 15-24 | 6% | |
| ELK-2-130 Outfitter | Unit 2 — either sex — Bow — Sept. 15-24 | 7% | |
| ELK-3-131 Standard | Unit 2 — mature bull — Muzzle — Oct. 10-14 | 7% | |
| ELK-3-131 Outfitter | Unit 2 — mature bull — Muzzle — Oct. 10-14 | 29% |
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 $877 ($867 to apply) · Outfitter $877 ($867 to apply). Closes Mar 17, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Elk | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 891 | 424 | 49% |
| 2024 | 865 | 372 | 45% |
| 2023 | 872 | 409 | 49% |
| 2022 | 763 | 363 | 52% |
| 2021 | 773 | 363 | 48% |
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Elk | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| Youth | 69 | 38 | 55% |
| Reg · rifle · 75 licenses | 72 | 35 | 53% |
| Reg · archery (hunt 2 of 2) | 4 | 0 | 0% |
| Reg · archery (hunt 1 of 2) | 5 | 0 | 0% |
| Reg · rifle · 10 licenses (hunt 3 of 4) | 8 | 1 | 14% |
| Reg · rifle · 10 licenses (hunt 1 of 4) | 10 | 0 | 0% |
| Reg · rifle · 10 licenses (hunt 2 of 4) | 9 | 4 | 50% |
| Reg · rifle · 10 licenses (hunt 4 of 4) | 6 | 2 | 20% |
2025 split: rifle 80 (100%) from 174 hunters, 46%, archery 0 (0%)
What New Mexico Department of Game and Fish publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. Source: NMDGF 2025-2026 Elk Harvest Report; NMDGF 2024-2025 Elk Harvest Report; NMDGF 2023 Elk Hunter Harvest Report.
The Ground
| BLM | 969,719 ac | 65% |
| National Forest | 153,335 ac | 10% |
| State trust land | 75,793 ac | 5% |
| Bureau of Reclamation | 27,638 ac | 2% |
| Tribal | 25,723 ac | 2% |
| State land | 5,214 ac | <1% |
| National Park Service | 265 ac | <1% |
| Private or other non-public land | 237,281 ac | 16% |
Source: U.S. Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico State Office 2023 BLM_Surface_Management_2023.
▸ 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 Elk Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- NMDGF 2024-2025 Elk Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- NMDGF 2023 Elk Hunter Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- NMDGF 2022 Elk Hunter Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- NMDGF 2021 Elk Hunter 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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