East Lassen Muzzleloading Rifle Buck Hunt · Hunt zone M5 · 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 M5Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public hunting land

73%

439,030 ac of 597,340 ac

Landlocked public

1,991 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

34%

of public · 148,698 ac

Walk-in access

81 ac

private land opened to hunting

Deer · 2024

40% success

no unit-level hunter count published

2 bucks (bucks only)

Deer hunter success · 2021–2024 · 50% → 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

Elevation4,010–7,890 ft

Median elevation5,470 ft

Median slope5°

Where the ground sits

4,010 ft7,890 ft

Tap or hover the bars for each elevation band

Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 22%

E 23%

S 27%

W 28%

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 X5b Archery Hunt · Hunt zone A9 · 73% public Zone X5a Archery Hunt · Hunt zone A8 · 73% public Horse Lake Muzzleloading Rifle Buck Hunt · Hunt zone M4 · 73% public Bass Hill Muzzleloading Rifle Buck Hunt · Hunt zone M8 · 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.