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Units / California / Hunt zone A27

Devil's Garden Archery Buck Hunt · Hunt zone A27 · 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 A27Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public land

89%

371,583 ac of 419,388 ac

Landlocked public

10,441 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

6%

of public · 21,617 ac

Deer · 2024

25% success

no district-level hunter estimate published

2 bucks (bucks only)

Deer hunter success · 2021–2024 · 50% → 25%

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California deer draw odds — 1 hunt here

10 tags drawn on this hunt zone last season.

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Terrain — this boundary, not the zone’s

Elevation4,050–5,750 ft
Median elevation4,690 ft
Median slope

Where the ground sits

4,050 ft5,750 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 18%
E 25%
S 19%
W 38%

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

Devil's Garden Muzzleloading Rifle Buck Hunt · Hunt zone M9 · 89% publicZone X2 Archery Hunt · Hunt zone A4 · 75% publicZone X1 Archery Hunt · Hunt zone A3 · 63% publicZone X3a Archery Hunt · Hunt zone A5 · 53% public

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