New Mexico Antelope (Pronghorn) — GMU 21

New Mexico GMU 21 covers 1,931,234 acres and lies 21 miles north-west of Hatch. 74% of it is public land, mostly BLM (37%) and state trust land (20%). The 2026 draw put up 2 tags here for 12 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2026):9 Nonresident share:capped at 10% Applicants:134 Public land:74% Size:1,931,234 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every pronghorn license type on offer in GMU 21, 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.

12 licenses on offer · 9 tags · 134 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
  • ANT-1-139 Units 21, 24: youth only — either sex — Any Legal - Youth Only — Aug. 29-31 0 tags · 1 applicants · Standard
    Not open to nonresidents
  • ANT-1-139 Units 21, 24: youth only — either sex — Any Legal - Youth Only — Aug. 29-31 1 tags · 45 applicants · Outfitter
    2% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • ANT-1-140 Units 21, 24 — mature bull — Any Legal — Aug. 29-31 0 tags · 4 applicants · Standard
    Not open to nonresidents 0% as 2nd choice
  • ANT-1-140 Units 21, 24 — mature bull — Any Legal — Aug. 29-31 0 tags · 1 applicants · Outfitter
    Not open to nonresidents 0% as 2nd choice
  • ANT-1-141 Units 21, 24 — mature bull — Any Legal — Sept. 26-28 0 tags · 2 applicants · Standard
    Not open to nonresidents 0% as 2nd choice
  • ANT-1-141 Units 21, 24 — mature bull — Any Legal — Sept. 26-28 1 tags · 21 applicants · Outfitter
    5% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • ANT-1-142 Units 21, 24: mobility impaired only — mature bull — Any Legal - Mobility — Sept. 26-28 0 tags · 0 applicants · Standard
    Not open to nonresidents
  • ANT-1-142 Units 21, 24: mobility impaired only — mature bull — Any Legal - Mobility — Sept. 26-28 1 tags · 0 applicants · Outfitter
    100% No first-choice applicants 50% as 2nd choice
  • ANT-1-143 Units 21, 24 — mature bull — Any Legal — Oct. 3-5 1 tags · 40 applicants · Standard
    3% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • ANT-1-143 Units 21, 24 — mature bull — Any Legal — Oct. 3-5 1 tags · 6 applicants · Outfitter
    0% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • ANT-2-138 Units 21, 24 — mature bull — Bow — Aug. 15-23 2 tags · 12 applicants · Standard
    8% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • ANT-2-138 Units 21, 24 — mature bull — Bow — Aug. 15-23 2 tags · 2 applicants · Outfitter
    100% Likely draw 100% 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
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
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 $517 $107 $527
Outfitter license $517 $107 $527

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

The country

Elephant Butte Hatch Socorro Anthony Rio Communities
GMU 21 within New Mexico
12 13 15 16 17 18 19 20 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 32 36 37 38 Elephant Butte Hatch Las Cruces Silver City Socorro
GMU 21 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

  • BLM 713,962 ac · 37%
  • State trust land 395,618 ac · 20%
  • National Forest 298,135 ac · 15%
  • State land 18,520 ac · 1%
  • Bureau of Reclamation 699 ac · 0%
  • Tribal 29 ac · 0%
  • Private or other non-public land 504,268 ac · 26%

Source: BLM_Surface_Management_2023 (BLM New Mexico State Office Surface Management Agency layer)

Boundary: NM Game Management Units (NMDGF_Game_Management_Units_I_E__v2_WFL1), layer 0

How we compute draw odds · All New Mexico pronghorn hunts