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New Mexico · Deer · 2026-27

Deer tags

New Mexico · 2026-27

Tags held

0

resident prices

Spend

$0

at the printed fee schedule

Seasons covered

—

drop a pin first

Bucks taken

0 of 1

One deer a licence year, and one deer licence. It is unlawful to "kill more than one of the following: elk, pronghorn, Barbary sheep, bighorn sheep, ibex, javelina, oryx, bear or deer during any license year, except as permitted by rule", and equally unlawful to "apply for, buy or use more than one license for any species per license year". What class of deer that one may be is set by the bag limit on your hunt code: fork-antlered deer, fork-antlered mule deer, fork-antlered white-tailed deer, either-sex white-tailed deer, or antlerless deer. Rules and Info, printed pp. 21 and 53.

You

What you pay, and in several states what you are even offered.

Residency

New Mexico Department of Wildlife prices residents and non-residents differently, and sells some tags to only one of them.

Licences

Without one of these there is no legal way to hunt deer here.

Tags and permits

Good anywhere in the state.

Tags for a unit

Drop a pin first — these are sold per game management unit, and the app will not guess which one you meant.

Nothing to tick here yet.

Nothing in your wallet yet

Tick what you hold and the calendar starts answering for you rather than for everybody. New Mexico Department of Wildlife sells them at the link below.

Deer licence (draw): the deadline has passed

Applications closed 18 March 2026, 5 p.m. MDT. There is nothing to do about it this season.
Buy licences and tags at New Mexico Department of Wildlife

Prices are what the New Mexico Department of Wildlife printed for 2026-27, and are here to help you recognise a tag rather than to sell you one.

New Mexico deer seasons, 2026-27

New Mexico’s 2026-27 deer seasons run September 1, 2026 to January 31, 2027, and what is open on a given day depends on the game management unit your stand is in. Drop a pin above and this app reads the game management unit off it, then answers the rest from there — the dates, the legal arms, the bag limits and the shooting hours, transcribed page by page from the New Mexico Department of Wildlife digest. It is a planning aid, not the law: check the digest before you hunt.

Every screen for New Mexico

  • Today in New Mexico — Whether the season is open at your pin this morning, what you may take, and the legal light either end of the day.
  • Map in New Mexico — Drop a pin and see the unit, the public land and the property lines under it.
  • Weather in New Mexico — Wind, temperature and the scent cone over your ground, hour by hour, for the days you can still choose between.
  • Calendar in New Mexico — Every day your tags are good for in your unit, from opening day to the end of the season.
  • Rut in New Mexico — When the rut runs where you hunt, and which week is worth taking off.
  • Rules in New Mexico — The legal arms, bag limits, antler restrictions and shooting hours that apply at your pin.
  • Tags in New Mexico — The licences and permits you hold — what turns the published season into your season.

The other states

Every state — the app opens on whichever one your own pin falls in.