Little Dry Creek Apprentice Shotgun Either-Sex Deer Hunt · Hunt zone J9 · 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 J9Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public land

99%

4,113 ac of 4,160 ac

Landlocked public

0 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

of public · 0 ac

Walk-in access

4,160 ac

private land opened to hunting

Deer · 2024

40% success

no district-level hunter estimate published

0 bucks · 2 does

Deer hunter success · 2021–2024 · 100% → 40%

Plan it

See it on the map →

California deer draw odds — 1 hunt here →

5 tags drawn on this hunt zone last season.

OpenHunt for Android is on Google Play — offline packs, GPS tracks, same account. Send it to your phone →

Terrain — this boundary, not the zone’s

Elevation60–80 ft

Median elevation70 ft

Median slope0°

Slope mix

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

Bucks Mountain/Nevada City Apprentice Either-Sex Deer Hunt · Hunt zone J16 · 48% public Gray Lodge Shotgun Either-Sex Deer Hunt · Hunt zone G12 · 99% public Daugherty Hill Wildlife Area Apprentice Either-Sex Deer Hunt · Hunt zone J8 · 62% public Sutter-Yuba Wildlife Areas Either-Sex Deer Hunt · Hunt zone G19 · 90% 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.