New Mexico Antelope (Pronghorn) ANT-1-211 — GMU 40

Unit 40 — mature bull — Any Legal — Oct. 3-5

GMU 40 within New Mexico

What you may take: Unit 40 — mature bull — Any Legal — Oct. 3-5 (male)
Weapon: Rifle
Where: GMU 40; 14% public of 2,416,580 acres
Season (2026): Oct 3–5, 2026
Tags (2026): 0; for 0 first-choice applicants · nonresidents capped at 10%
Hunter success here (2025): 73%; of everyone who hunted the area

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

Not open to nonresidents in 2026

New Mexico Department of Game and Fish issued no nonresident tags for this hunt in 2026 and took no nonresident applications for it.

What it costs (2026 nonresident fees)

Cash to apply

$517

Out of pocket if unsuccessful

$107

Total if drawn

$527

Refunded if unsuccessful

$410

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 Pronghorn License (printed $423 incl. $13 application fee) · paid at application, refundable $410 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 3–5, 2026 p. sheet1 row 89

How this tag has hunted

Across every license type in GMU 40, New Mexico Department of Game and Fish counted 373 hunters and 273 pronghorn taken in 2025 — 73% of them killed something. Full GMU 40 profile: maps, public land, five years of harvest →

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

Year by year

The standard draw for nonresidents, one row per year.

Year	Applicants per tag	Points needed	Published odds	Source
2026	—	—	0.00%	2026 Big Game Drawing Odds... · sheet1 row 89
2025	—	—	0.00%	2025-26 Big-Game Drawing Odds... · sheet1 row 91
2024	—	—	—	2024-25 Big-Game Drawing Odds... · sheet1 row 91
2023	—	—	—	2023 Big-Game Complete Drawing... · sheet1 row 91

Other licenses valid in GMU 40

ANT-1-209 — Unit 40 — mature bull — Any Legal — Aug. 29-31 Rifle ANT-1-210 — Unit 40: mobility impaired only — mature bull — Any Legal - Mobility — Sept. 26-28 Rifle ANT-2-208 — Unit 40 — mature bull — Bow — Aug. 15-23 Archery

Legal cartridges for pronghorn in New Mexico

From the New Mexico hunting laws rules on file for a rifle. "Depends" means the rule turns on your specific load — check the state page.

.22-250 Remington

.223 Remington from $0.42/rd

.243 Winchester from $1.11/rd

.25-06 Remington

6.5 Creedmoor

6.5 Grendel

.270 Winchester from $0.16/rd

7mm-08 Remington

7mm Remington Magnum

.30-06 Springfield

.300 AAC Blackout from $0.56/rd

.300 Winchester Magnum from $1.25/rd

.30-30 Winchester

.308 Winchester

.338 Winchester Magnum

.350 Legend from $1.07/rd

.35 Whelen

.360 Buckhammer

.400 Legend

.444 Marlin

.450 Bushmaster from $2.00/rd

.45-70 Government from $1.97/rd

.50 Beowulf

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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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