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Units / California / Hunt zone A12

Zone X6b Archery Hunt · Hunt zone A12 · California

Deer hunt area — its own geography, not the zone with the same number. Public land, access, and deer harvest below are computed for this boundary.

Hunt zone A12Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public land

77%

340,331 ac of 440,004 ac

Landlocked public

1,684 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

1%

of public · 1,710 ac

Walk-in access

17,297 ac

private land opened to hunting

Deer · 2024

27.6% success

no district-level hunter estimate published

24 bucks (bucks only)

Deer hunter success · 2021–2024 · 9% → 28%

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California deer draw odds — 1 hunt here

90 tags drawn on this hunt zone last season.

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Terrain — this boundary, not the zone’s

Elevation3,710–8,260 ft
Median elevation5,670 ft
Median slope

Where the ground sits

3,710 ft8,260 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 25%
E 24%
S 24%
W 27%

Share of ground steeper than 5° — flat ground has no facing

North slopes hold shade, cover and snow; south slopes open first.

USGS 3DEP 1 arc-second (30 m), slope at native resolution in a local metric projection, sampled on a 200 m grid. See the code →

Nearby deer hunt zones

Doyle Muzzleloading Rifle Buck Hunt · Hunt zone M3 · 60% publicBass Hill Muzzleloading Rifle Buck Hunt · Hunt zone M8 · 21% publicBass Hill Archery Buck Hunt · Hunt zone A26 · 21% publicZone X7a Archery Hunt · Hunt zone A13 · 59% public

Boundaries from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife deer hunt-area layer; ownership from USGS PAD-US; access from the state walk-in program; roads from OSM + MVUM. Same open formulas as every unit page — the methodology is published and the code is open.