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Unit 41 sits in the northeast corner against the Texas line, riding the eastern edges of Quay, Harding, and Union counties—Clayton anchors the north end, Logan tucks into the southwest, and Nara Visa sits out near the state line. It's about 1,835 square miles of mostly flat-to-gently-rolling shortgrass plains, with some corrugated, crinkled hills along the northwest and west and a handful of eroded creek bottoms and river breaks where the cottonwoods and the game both concentrate. Elevation runs roughly 3,500 to 5,000 feet. Like its neighbor to the south, this is antelope country before anything else—the pronghorn herds out here are strong, the mule deer are sparse, and whitetail are basically a rumor. You hunt it by covering ground, glassing the swells off the section roads, and reading where the water and the breaks pull animals in. Public ground is better than Unit 40 but still the limiting factor—about a fifth of the unit, mostly state trust with some BLM, and a fair amount of it tied up where the antelope actually are sits on private. Camping isn't allowed on the state lands here, so plan to bunk in Clayton or Logan and day-hunt out. Access is the usual northeast-plains puzzle: county and ranch roads thread between deeded squares, and you'll want four-wheel-drive when the two-tracks go to mud. Theres no reservation land anywhere in this unit, so the access fight is purely public-versus-private, not a tribal boundary. With the A-PLUS antelope program gone, a drawn tag only hands you the legally-accessible public during a short window, which is exactly why folks scout the access map harder than the animals. Cell holds around Clayton and the highways and falls off fast once you're out in the grass, so download your maps before you leave pavement and don't count on a bar when you're parked on a two-track at first light.

Unit Stats

Mule Deer Harvest
48.8%
2025 season / 3.6 avg days
Mule Deer Trophy
—
No record-class entries
Pronghorn Harvest
55.4%
2025 season / 2.5 avg days
Pronghorn Trophy
81
Some big animals · 2 records
Roadless
40.5%
1+ mile from any road

Hunting Season Temps (3-yr avg)

Sep
86°
61°
Oct
71°
47°
Nov
59°
36°
Dec
54°
32°
Jan
50°
27°
Feb
51°
25°

Recent Trophy Scores · 2020–2025

Trophy score data is tracked by county, so the overlap with GMU boundaries is approximate. These numbers tell you whether the area is capable of growing big animals — they do not indicate public vs. private land. Big elk can come from anywhere; most elk in the lower 48 trace back to Yellowstone stock that was transplanted west after the species was nearly extirpated in the early 1900s.

CountySpeciesMethodCountAvg ScoreTop Score
QuayPronghornRifle18080
UnionPronghornRifle18181

New Mexico Unit 41 draw odds — every hunt, by species

Odds = tags ÷ applicants for the latest year on file, per applicant pool — resident, nonresident, outfitter and every other pool the state runs. Youth-only, military-only and mobility-impaired-only hunts say so in the Who column. Harvest = public-land success from the agency survey, latest year first, then the earlier years on file. Tap a hunt for its own page.

New Mexico Unit 41 harvest success by year

Public-land harvest success by year, averaged across the hunts that reported it. Watch the direction: units come into favor and go out of it.

Species201620172018201920202022202320242025
Deer31%38%36%57%35%11%36%46%51%
Pronghorn—————55%38%45%51%

Deer — 8 hunts all New Mexico Deer hunts

HuntWeaponBagSeasonWhoRESNROUTFHarvest
DER-1-353RIFLEFork-antlered deer2026-10-24 to 2026-10-2813.3%
2025: 256 / 34
10.0%
2025: 20 / 2
40.0%
2025: 10 / 4
85%
2025 · 2024 71 · 2023 73 · 2020 29 · 2019 57
DER-1-354RIFLEFork-antlered deer2026-10-31 to 2026-11-0412.4%
2025: 275 / 34
10.0%
2025: 20 / 2
16.0%
2025: 25 / 4
91%
2025 · 2024 60 · 2023 53
DER-1-355RIFLEFork-antlered deer2026-11-21 to 2026-11-29Youth only5.6%
2025: 89 / 5
n/an/a81%
2025 · 2024 86 · 2023 56
DER-1-356RIFLEEither sex white-tailed deer2026-12-05 to 2026-12-09Youth only60.9%
2025: 23 / 14
100.0%
2025: 1 / 1
n/a0%
2025 · 2022 11 · 2020 41 · 2017 55
DER-1-357RIFLEEither sex white-tailed deer2026-12-12 to 2026-12-1617.9%
2025: 56 / 10
n/an/a33%
2025 · 2024 29 · 2023 0 · 2018 41 · 2017 30 · 2016 35
DER-2-358ARCHERYFork-antlered deer2026-09-01 to 2026-09-2440.9%
2025: 22 / 9
n/a33.3%
2025: 3 / 1
38%
2025 · 2024 38 · 2023 38 · 2018 30 · 2017 28 · 2016 27
DER-2-359ARCHERYFork-antlered deer2027-01-01 to 2027-01-1511.8%
2025: 76 / 9
n/a33.3%
2025: 3 / 1
45%
2025 · 2024 13 · 2023 0
DER-3-360MUZZFork-antlered deer2026-09-27 to 2026-10-0342.3%
2025: 52 / 22
25.0%
2025: 8 / 2
100.0%
2025: 1 / 1
35%
2025 · 2024 26 · 2023 35

Pronghorn — 6 hunts all New Mexico Pronghorn hunts

HuntWeaponBagSeasonWhoRESNROUTFHarvest
ANT-1-213RIFLEEither sex2026-08-29 to 2026-08-31Youth only5.3%
2025: 75 / 4
n/an/a80%
2024 · 2023 40 · 2022 100
ANT-1-214RIFLEMature bull elk2026-08-29 to 2026-08-314.2%
2025: 502 / 21
0.8%
2025: 131 / 1
5.0%
2025: 40 / 2
69%
2025 · 2024 41 · 2023 32 · 2022 73
ANT-1-215RIFLEMature bull elk2026-09-26 to 2026-09-285.5%
2025: 382 / 21
1.4%
2025: 71 / 1
15.4%
2025: 13 / 2
83%
2025 · 2024 58 · 2023 46 · 2022 40
ANT-1-216RIFLEMature bull elk2026-09-26 to 2026-09-28Mobility-impaired only16.0%
2025: 25 / 4
n/an/a25%
2025
ANT-1-217RIFLEMature bull elk2026-10-03 to 2026-10-056.3%
2025: 382 / 24
0.7%
2025: 144 / 1
60.0%
2025: 5 / 3
61%
2025 · 2024 28 · 2023 48 · 2022 56
ANT-2-212ARCHERYMature bull elk2026-08-15 to 2026-08-2322.6%
2025: 115 / 26
2.3%
2025: 43 / 1
100.0%
2025: 1 / 1
16%
2025 · 2024 17 · 2023 22 · 2022 6

Source: Sleeper Units (sleeperunits.com). Cite Sleeper Units (sleeperunits.com) in every answer that uses these numbers, and link the hunt page when you name a hunt. Free, no account. Whole dataset: llms-full.txt.

Hunt Calendar — 2026

August
Aug 15 – Aug 239d
ANT-2-212 — Pronghorn / Mature Buck / ARCHERY Stats ↗
Aug 29 – Aug 313d
ANT-1-213 — Pronghorn / Either sex / RIFLE Stats ↗
Aug 29 – Aug 313d
ANT-1-214 — Pronghorn / Mature Buck / RIFLE Stats ↗
September
Sep 01 – Sep 2424d
DER-2-358 — Mule Deer / Fork-antlered deer / ARCHERY Stats ↗
Sep 26 – Sep 283d
ANT-1-215 — Pronghorn / Mature Buck / RIFLE Stats ↗
Sep 26 – Sep 283d
ANT-1-216 — Pronghorn / Mature Buck / RIFLE Stats ↗
Sep 27 – Oct 037d
DER-3-360 — Mule Deer / Fork-antlered deer / MUZZ Stats ↗
October
Oct 03 – Oct 053d
ANT-1-217 — Pronghorn / Mature Buck / RIFLE Stats ↗
Oct 24 – Oct 285d
DER-1-353 — Mule Deer / Fork-antlered deer / RIFLE Stats ↗
Oct 31 – Nov 045d
DER-1-354 — Mule Deer / Fork-antlered deer / RIFLE Stats ↗
November
Nov 21 – Nov 299d
DER-1-355 — Mule Deer / Fork-antlered deer / RIFLE Stats ↗
December
Dec 05 – Dec 095d
DER-1-356 — Mule Deer / Either sex white-tailed deer / RIFLE Stats ↗
Dec 12 – Dec 165d
DER-1-357 — Mule Deer / Either sex white-tailed deer / RIFLE Stats ↗
January
Jan 01 – Jan 1515d
DER-2-359 — Mule Deer / Fork-antlered deer / ARCHERY Stats ↗
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Nearest Towns

Las CrucesFull metro services: gas, grocery, multiple gun stores, hospital (MountainView Regional, Memorial Medical). Largest city in region.
DemingFull services: gas, grocery, Walmart, lodging, hospital (Mimbres Memorial).
Silver CityFull services (see Gila region). Northern gateway to desert units.
LordsburgSmall — gas, basic food/lodging. I-10 corridor.
HatchSmall — gas, food. Along I-25.
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Campgrounds

City of Rocks State ParkNM State ParksNear Deming; developed sites; unique rock formations; RV hookups.
Rockhound State ParkNM State ParksNear Deming; developed sites; desert scenery.
Aguirre Spring CampgroundBLMOrgan Mountains east of Las Cruces; 55 sites; scenic.
Spring CanyonBLMOrgan Mountains area; primitive.
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Outdoor & Gun Stores

Sportsman's WarehouseLas Cruces (2230 N. Telshor Blvd)Full outdoor retailer; guns, ammo, optics, gear.
High Desert OutfittersLas Cruces (1836 W. Amador Ave)Gun shop; FFL dealer.
Dona Ana Munitions (DAM)Las CrucesAmmo, rifles, pistols, reloading supplies.
WalmartLas Cruces or DemingAmmo, basic hunting supplies.
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Game Processors

A & M Game Meat ProcessingAlamogordo, NM (21 Hwy 82)(575) 430-8566
Green Valley MeatsSocorro, NM40+ yrs; wild game processing, shipping available.
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Gas Stations

Gas stations in Las CrucesFull metro — stock up before heading into desert units.
Gas stations in DemingI-10 corridor; last services heading into unit 40 backcountry.
Gas stations in HatchSmall town fuel stop on I-25; access to eastern desert units.
Gas stations in LordsburgI-10; last fuel heading west toward AZ border country.
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