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Units / California / Hunt zone A6

Zone X3b Archery Hunt · Hunt zone A6 · 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 A6Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public hunting land

63%

622,674 ac of 987,590 ac

Landlocked public

3,067 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

15%

of public · 96,084 ac

Walk-in access

6,632 ac

private land opened to hunting

Deer · 2024

13% success

no unit-level hunter count published

9 bucks (bucks only)

Deer hunter success · 2021–2024 · 20% → 13%

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California deer draw odds — 1 hunt here →

70 tags drawn on this hunt zone last season.

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Terrain — this boundary, not the zone’s

Elevation4,350–9,860 ft
Median elevation5,360 ft
Median slope5°

Where the ground sits

4,350 ft9,860 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 20%
E 25%
S 21%
W 34%

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 X2 Archery Hunt · Hunt zone A4 · 75% publicZone X3a Archery Hunt · Hunt zone A5 · 53% publicZone X5b Archery Hunt · Hunt zone A9 · 73% publicEast Lassen Muzzleloading Rifle Buck Hunt · Hunt zone M5 · 73% 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.