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New Mexico Elk — GMU 34

New Mexico GMU 34 covers 1,085,460 acres and lies 17 miles east of Alamogordo and 27 miles south-east of Tularosa. 73% of it is public land, mostly national forest (41%) and BLM (20%). In 2025, 3,176 people hunted elk here and took 1,725 — 51% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 25 tags here for 165 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2026):241 Nonresident share:capped at 6% Applicants:5,080 Hunter success (2025):51% Public land:73% Size:1,085,460 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every elk license type on offer in GMU 34, 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.

26 licenses on offer · 241 tags · 5,080 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
  • ELK-1-347 Unit 34 youth only — either sex — Any Legal - Youth — Oct. 10-14 4 tags · 385 applicants · Standard
    <1% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • ELK-1-347 Unit 34 youth only — either sex — Any Legal - Youth — Oct. 10-14 8 tags · 362 applicants · Outfitter
    2% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • ELK-1-348 Unit 34 youth only — antlerless — Any Legal - NM — Oct. 10-14 0 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • ELK-1-348 Unit 34 youth only — antlerless — Any Legal - NM — Oct. 10-14 11 tags · 1 applicants · Outfitter
    100% Undersubscribed 83% as 2nd choice
  • ELK-1-349 Unit 34 mobility impaired — either sex — Any Legal - Mobility — Oct. 10-14 3 tags · 35 applicants · Standard
    9% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • ELK-1-349 Unit 34 mobility impaired — either sex — Any Legal - Mobility — Oct. 10-14 5 tags · 36 applicants · Outfitter
    11% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • ELK-1-351 Unit 34 — either sex — Any Legal — Oct. 24-28 9 tags · 885 applicants · Standard
    1% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • ELK-1-351 Unit 34 — either sex — Any Legal — Oct. 24-28 15 tags · 599 applicants · Outfitter
    2% Long shot <1% as 2nd choice
  • ELK-1-352 Unit 34 — antlerless — Any Legal - NM — Nov. 28-Dec. 2 0 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • ELK-1-352 Unit 34 — antlerless — Any Legal - NM — Nov. 28-Dec. 2 18 tags · 7 applicants · Outfitter
    100% Undersubscribed 50% as 2nd choice
  • ELK-1-353 Unit 34 — antlerless — Any Legal - NM — Dec. 5-9 0 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • ELK-1-353 Unit 34 — antlerless — Any Legal - NM — Dec. 5-9 15 tags · 10 applicants · Outfitter
    100% Undersubscribed 38% as 2nd choice
  • ELK-1-354 Unit 34 — antlerless — Any Legal - NM — Dec. 12-16 0 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • ELK-1-354 Unit 34 — antlerless — Any Legal - NM — Dec. 12-16 1 tags · 1 applicants · Outfitter
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • ELK-1-356 Unit 34 — antlerless — Any Legal - NM — Jan. 23-27, ‘27 0 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • ELK-1-356 Unit 34 — antlerless — Any Legal - NM — Jan. 23-27, ‘27 12 tags · 5 applicants · Outfitter
    100% Undersubscribed 63% as 2nd choice
  • ELK-1-357 Unit 34 — antlerless — Any Legal - NM — Feb. 6-10, ‘27 0 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • ELK-1-357 Unit 34 — antlerless — Any Legal - NM — Feb. 6-10, ‘27 4 tags · 1 applicants · Outfitter
    100% Undersubscribed 100% as 2nd choice
  • ELK-2-345 Unit 34 — either sex — Bow — Sept. 1-14 12 tags · 410 applicants · Standard
    <1% Long shot 2% as 2nd choice
  • ELK-2-345 Unit 34 — either sex — Bow — Sept. 1-14 20 tags · 257 applicants · Outfitter
    4% Long shot 3% as 2nd choice
  • ELK-2-346 Unit 34 — either sex — Bow — Sept. 15-24 12 tags · 921 applicants · Standard
    1% Long shot <1% as 2nd choice
  • ELK-2-346 Unit 34 — either sex — Bow — Sept. 15-24 20 tags · 602 applicants · Outfitter
    2% Long shot 2% as 2nd choice
  • ELK-2-355 Unit 34 — antler-point-restricted bull (6+ points) or antlerless — Bow — Dec. 19-23 12 tags · 60 applicants · Standard
    7% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • ELK-2-355 Unit 34 — antler-point-restricted bull (6+ points) or antlerless — Bow — Dec. 19-23 20 tags · 21 applicants · Outfitter
    38% Long shot 30% as 2nd choice
  • ELK-3-350 Unit 34 — either sex — Muzzle — Oct. 17-21 15 tags · 317 applicants · Standard
    3% Long shot 2% as 2nd choice
  • ELK-3-350 Unit 34 — either sex — Muzzle — Oct. 17-21 25 tags · 165 applicants · Outfitter
    7% Long shot 1% as 2nd choice
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
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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
—
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 $867 $107 $877
Outfitter license $867 $107 $877

Application window: closes Mar 18, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

The country

Alamogordo Ruidoso Downs Las Cruces Carlsbad Sunland Park
GMU 34 within New Mexico
19 28 29 30 36 Alamogordo Tularosa Ruidoso Downs Capitan Artesia
GMU 34 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 447,853 ac · 41%
  • BLM 214,094 ac · 20%
  • State trust land 125,046 ac · 12%
  • Department of Defense 6,367 ac · 1%
  • State land 805 ac · 0%
  • Tribal 68 ac · 0%
  • National Park Service 0 ac · 0%
  • Private or other non-public land 291,223 ac · 27%

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 3,176 1,725 51%
2024 3,212 1,754 48%
2023 3,082 1,735 54%
2022 2,667 1,524 50%
2021 2,717 1,578 52%

What people carried (2025 harvest)

  • Rifle 873 · 84% · 1,800 hunters, 49% success
  • Archery 93 · 9% · 264 hunters, 35% success
  • Muzzleloader 74 · 7% · 127 hunters, 58% success

What the agency says about the area

GMU 34: Beginning at the junction of Tulie Gate road (Otero CR B-006) and the east boundary of the White Sands missile range at Tularosa gate and running east along Tulie Gate road to its junction with Railroad avenue (Otero CR B-009), then north on Railroad avenue to its intersection with US 54, then running south along US 54 to its intersection with US 70 at Tularosa, then running northeast...

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 Elk Harvest Report

Harvest: 2024-2025 Elk Harvest Report

Harvest: 2023 New Mexico Elk Hunter Harvest Report

How we compute draw odds · All New Mexico elk hunts