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Units / California / Hunt zone A5

Zone X3a Archery Hunt · Hunt zone A5 · 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 A5Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public land

53%

520,384 ac of 981,280 ac

Landlocked public

4,970 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

6%

of public · 33,043 ac

Walk-in access

14,722 ac

private land opened to hunting

Deer · 2024

32.5% success

no district-level hunter estimate published

13 bucks (bucks only)

Deer hunter success · 2021–2024 · 9% → 33%

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California deer draw odds — 1 hunt here

40 tags drawn on this hunt zone last season.

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Terrain — this boundary, not the zone’s

Elevation3,530–7,310 ft
Median elevation5,180 ft
Median slope

Where the ground sits

3,530 ft7,310 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 22%
E 28%
S 19%
W 30%

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

Zone X4 Archery Hunt · Hunt zone A7 · 62% publicZone X3b Archery Hunt · Hunt zone A6 · 63% publicZone X5a Archery Hunt · Hunt zone A8 · 74% publicHorse Lake Muzzleloading Rifle Buck Hunt · Hunt zone M4 · 74% 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.