US state
New Mexico (NM)
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New Mexico big-game backdrop
New Mexico is known for high-quality elk draws and unit research.
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Nonresident permit and tag opportunities
First-pass official-source research package for nonresident applications, draw/OTC paths, odds, harvest stats, and map linkage. Retrieved 2026-05-13.
New Mexico nonresidents apply through NMDGF online sales, by phone, or through NMDOW offices where allowed. The draw is random and uses no preference or bonus points. Most big-game draw species are due March 18, 2026 before 5 p.m. MDT; bear and turkey draw permits are due February 11, 2026 before 5 p.m. MT. Official draw information describes quota pools of 84% resident, 10% outfitter pool, and 6% nonresident without outfitter. Applicants pay required licenses/stamps/validations and the full draw license amount up front; unsuccessful applicants receive refunds of the refundable license portion.
Hunt codes: Exact current hunt codes are in the 2026-2027 New Mexico Hunting Rules and Information booklet.
Units: New Mexico GMUs listed by hunt code; some opportunities are private-land, military, or special-area restricted.
Deadlines: kind: text; text: Application deadline: March 18, 2026 before 5 p.m. MDT • kind: text; text: Draw results scheduled: April 22, 2026
Fees: kind: text; text: Nonresident standard elk draw license: $773 including application fee • kind: text; text: Nonresident quality/high-demand elk draw license: $998 including application fee
Open map layerHunt codes: Exact current hunt codes are in the 2026-2027 New Mexico Hunting Rules and Information booklet.
Units: New Mexico GMUs listed by hunt code; some opportunities are private-land, military, or special-area restricted.
Deadlines: kind: text; text: Authorization/license timing depends on landowner authorization and hunt dates • kind: text; text: Online/telephone private-land purchases must be made at least 14 days before hunt start to allow tag mailing unless E-Tag applies
Fees: kind: text; text: Private-land elk license fee follows license type; in primary and special management zones a $9 landowner administrative fee applies • kind: text; text: Authorization value/payment to landowner or outfitter is private and not paid to NMDOW as a license fee
Open map layerHunt codes: Exact current hunt codes are in the 2026-2027 New Mexico Hunting Rules and Information booklet.
Units: New Mexico GMUs listed by hunt code; some opportunities are private-land, military, or special-area restricted.
Deadlines: kind: text; text: Application deadline: March 18, 2026 before 5 p.m. MDT • kind: text; text: Draw results scheduled: April 22, 2026
Fees: kind: text; text: Nonresident standard deer draw license: $398 including application fee • kind: text; text: Nonresident quality/high-demand deer draw license: $623 including application fee
Open map layerHunt codes: Exact current hunt codes are in the 2026-2027 New Mexico Hunting Rules and Information booklet.
Units: New Mexico GMUs listed by hunt code; some opportunities are private-land, military, or special-area restricted.
Deadlines: kind: text; text: Application deadline: March 18, 2026 before 5 p.m. MDT for listed private-land-only deer units
Fees: kind: text; text: Nonresident private-land-only deer standard license: $385 • kind: text; text: Nonresident private-land-only deer quality license: $610
Open map layerHunt codes: Exact current hunt codes are in the 2026-2027 New Mexico Hunting Rules and Information booklet.
Units: New Mexico GMUs listed by hunt code; some opportunities are private-land, military, or special-area restricted.
Deadlines: kind: text; text: Application deadline: March 18, 2026 before 5 p.m. MDT
Fees: kind: text; text: Nonresident pronghorn draw license: $423 including application fee
Open map layerHunt codes: Exact current hunt codes are in the 2026-2027 New Mexico Hunting Rules and Information booklet.
Units: New Mexico GMUs listed by hunt code; some opportunities are private-land, military, or special-area restricted.
Deadlines: kind: text; text: Purchase before hunt; online/telephone purchases must be at least 14 days before hunt start for mailed tag unless E-Tag applies
Fees: kind: text; text: Nonresident private-land-only pronghorn license: $410 • kind: text; text: Written landowner permission required; not valid on public land
Open map layerHunt codes: Exact current hunt codes are in the 2026-2027 New Mexico Hunting Rules and Information booklet.
Units: New Mexico GMUs listed by hunt code; some opportunities are private-land, military, or special-area restricted.
Deadlines: kind: text; text: Application deadline: March 18, 2026 before 5 p.m. MDT
Fees: kind: text; text: Nonresident bighorn sheep draw license: $3,523 including application fee
Open map layerHunt codes: Exact current hunt codes are in the 2026-2027 New Mexico Hunting Rules and Information booklet.
Units: New Mexico GMUs listed by hunt code; some opportunities are private-land, military, or special-area restricted.
Deadlines: kind: text; text: Application deadline: March 18, 2026 before 5 p.m. MDT
Fees: kind: text; text: Nonresident ibex draw license: $1,623 including application fee
Open map layerHunt codes: Exact current hunt codes are in the 2026-2027 New Mexico Hunting Rules and Information booklet.
Units: New Mexico GMUs listed by hunt code; some opportunities are private-land, military, or special-area restricted.
Deadlines: kind: text; text: Application deadline: March 18, 2026 before 5 p.m. MDT
Fees: kind: text; text: Nonresident Barbary sheep draw license: $373 including application fee
Open map layerHunt codes: Exact current hunt codes are in the 2026-2027 New Mexico Hunting Rules and Information booklet.
Units: New Mexico GMUs listed by hunt code; some opportunities are private-land, military, or special-area restricted.
Deadlines: kind: text; text: Season-specific; verify current table before display
Fees: kind: text; text: Nonresident OTC/private-land Barbary sheep fee context in booklet: $360; draw Barbary is $373 including application fee • kind: text; text: Written permission required on private land
Open map layerHunt codes: Exact current hunt codes are in the 2026-2027 New Mexico Hunting Rules and Information booklet.
Units: New Mexico GMUs listed by hunt code; some opportunities are private-land, military, or special-area restricted.
Deadlines: kind: text; text: Application deadline: March 18, 2026 before 5 p.m. MDT
Fees: kind: text; text: Nonresident oryx draw license: $1,623 including application fee • kind: text; text: WSMR access fee listed at $185 per hunter where applicable
Open map layerHunt codes: Exact current hunt codes are in the 2026-2027 New Mexico Hunting Rules and Information booklet.
Units: New Mexico GMUs listed by hunt code; some opportunities are private-land, military, or special-area restricted.
Deadlines: kind: text; text: Application deadline: March 18, 2026 before 5 p.m. MDT
Fees: kind: text; text: Nonresident javelina draw license: $178 including application fee
Open map layerShowing 12 featured opportunities. Research pack contains 15; remaining entries stay available to Jeremiah and future detailed tables.
- • kind: text; text: Create or use an NMDGF/NMDOW online sales account with a customer identification number (CIN) at https://onlinesales.wildlife.state.nm.us or apply by phone at 1-888-248-6866.
- • kind: text; text: Purchase the required Game-Hunting License or Game-Hunting & Fishing License before applying for or buying big-game or turkey licenses; 2026-2027 nonresident Game-Hunting License is listed at $90 and junior nonresident Game-Hunting License at $15.
- • kind: text; text: Purchase the Habitat Management and Access Validation (HMAV), listed at $4, for hunting/fishing/trapping.
- • kind: text; text: Purchase a Habitat Stamp, listed at $10 for nonresidents, when hunting on U.S. Forest Service or BLM lands unless exempt.
- • kind: text; text: Pay draw license fees up front; nonresident draw license fees include a nonrefundable $13 application fee, and unsuccessful applicants receive refunds of the refundable license portion.
- • kind: text; text: Submit mandatory harvest reports for prior deer, elk, pronghorn and turkey licenses by the posted deadline, or by the late-report deadline, to avoid rejection of all draw applications.
- • kind: text; text: Secure written private-land permission where required; private-land-only licenses are not public-land access permits.
- • kind: text; text: For WSMR/Ft. Bliss or other military hunts, complete required security/background and access-fee steps after drawing.
- • kind: text; text: Boondoggle has one NM layer, `gmu`, from the official NMDGF ArcGIS Game Management Units service; all current opportunities can be linked at GMU level once exact hunt-code tables are parsed.
- • kind: text; text: Exact hunt-code-to-GMU/date/method/quota/fee-type rows have not yet been ingested from the PDF booklet.
- • kind: text; text: The 2025 Drawing Odds Summary Report should be parsed into machine-readable hunt-code odds before per-hunt recommendations are rendered.
- • kind: text; text: EPLUS private-land elk authorizations include private transactions and ranch/unit-wide details that require additional current data before displaying inventory-like cards.
- • kind: text; text: Military hunts need WSMR/Ft. Bliss access metadata separate from ordinary GMU geometry.
- • kind: text; text: Parse exact current hunt-code tables, quotas, season dates, bag limits, and unit lists from the 2026-2027 rules booklet before displaying final hunt-code cards.
- • kind: text; text: Parse official Drawing Odds Summary rows by species/hunt code for odds-driven recommendations.
- • kind: text; text: Confirm year-specific OTC/private-land availability close to sale date, especially bear/turkey/Barbary/cougar opportunities.
- • kind: text; text: Do not imply EPLUS private-land elk authorization availability without current landowner authorization data and explicit user understanding that landowner payments are private transactions.
No. New Mexico's draw is random and uses no preference or bonus points, so a first-time nonresident has the same random structure as a returning applicant within the same quota pool.
Official draw information describes 84% resident, 10% outfitter pool, and 6% nonresident-without-outfitter pools. A nonresident applying with a registered outfitter competes in the outfitter pool rather than the 6% pool.
Bear and turkey draw permits are due February 11, 2026 before 5 p.m. MT. Most big-game draw applications are due March 18, 2026 before 5 p.m. MDT. Big-game results are scheduled for April 22, 2026.
Yes. Draw license fees are charged at application and include the nonresident $13 application fee. Unsuccessful applicants receive refunds of the refundable license portion, but application and prerequisite costs may be nonrefundable.
Mandatory harvest reporting. Prior deer, elk, pronghorn, turkey, Barbary sheep, ibex, javelina, oryx and certain other license holders must report by the listed deadlines or risk rejection of draw applications.
Sometimes. EPLUS authorizations can be bought/bartered/traded privately and allow purchase of private-land elk licenses, but hunters may not hold both a private-land elk license and a draw elk license in the same license year.
Unit Map / Units
GIS polygon layers render here when imported. Colorado now uses official CPW GMU boundaries; other states fall back to seeded unit cards until their KML/GeoJSON/shapefile layers are converted.
New Mexico Game Management Units
Official GIS sourcePrimary statewide management or hunt-unit boundaries.
Agency portals
Official agency, license/application, regulations, draw odds, and harvest stats.
NMDGF migrated public site to wildlife.dgf.nm.gov; online sales/draw still uses onlinesales.wildlife.state.nm.us. Draw odds page points to official report downloads.
Deadlines
Application, draw, reporting, and point purchase reminders.
No deadlines seeded yet.
Unit boundary source
Official map/GIS source for the future clickable unit-level map.
Format: ArcGIS REST
Conversion: Query layer 0 units and layer 1 subunits as GeoJSON; preserve unit labels.
License/source notes: Official NMDGF ArcGIS hosted feature service.
Open boundary sourceSpecies available
Starter list for this jurisdiction.
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Applications
State/province-specific plans, submitted applications, draw status, and spend.
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