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Units / California / Hunt zone M11

Northwestern California Muzzleloading Rifle Buck Hunt · Hunt zone M11 · 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 M11Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public land

48%

1,907,411 ac of 3,958,829 ac

Landlocked public

13,870 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

19%

of public · 358,866 ac

Walk-in access

18,713 ac

private land opened to hunting

Deer · 2024

65% success

no district-level hunter estimate published

13 bucks (bucks only)

Deer hunter success · 2021–2024 · 68% → 65%

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California deer draw odds — 1 hunt here

20 tags drawn on this hunt zone last season.

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Terrain — this boundary, not the zone’s

Elevation0–7,330 ft
Median elevation2,340 ft
Median slope19°

Where the ground sits

0 ft7,330 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 23%
E 26%
S 24%
W 27%

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 400 m grid. See the code →

Nearby deer hunt zones

Shasta-Trinity Apprentice Buck Hunt · Hunt zone J4 · 62% publicCovelo Archery Buck Hunt · Hunt zone A30 · 36% publicC Zones Archery Only Hunt (C1) · Hunt zone A1 · 34% publicTehama Wildlife Area Apprentice Buck Hunt · Hunt zone J3 · 100% 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.