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Units / California / Hunt zone A7

Zone X4 Archery Hunt · Hunt zone A7 · 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 A7Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public land

62%

441,804 ac of 713,751 ac

Landlocked public

3,826 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

5%

of public · 20,085 ac

Walk-in access

2,176 ac

private land opened to hunting

Deer · 2024

31.6% success

no district-level hunter estimate published

37 bucks (bucks only)

Deer hunter success · 2021–2024 · 31% → 32%

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California deer draw odds — 1 hunt here

120 tags drawn on this hunt zone last season.

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Terrain — this boundary, not the zone’s

Elevation2,730–7,630 ft
Median elevation5,390 ft
Median slope

Where the ground sits

2,730 ft7,630 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 23%
E 27%
S 21%
W 29%

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 X5a Archery Hunt · Hunt zone A8 · 74% publicHorse Lake Muzzleloading Rifle Buck Hunt · Hunt zone M4 · 74% publicZone X3a Archery Hunt · Hunt zone A5 · 53% publicBass Hill Archery Buck Hunt · Hunt zone A26 · 21% 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.