Ventura Muzzleloading Rifle Either-Sex Hunt · Hunt zone M7 · 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 M7Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public land

56%

657,660 ac of 1,172,728 ac

Landlocked public

1,453 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

39%

of public · 259,115 ac

Walk-in access

24 ac

private land opened to hunting

Deer · 2024

18.7% success

no district-level hunter estimate published

6 bucks · 23 does

Deer hunter success · 2021–2024 · 11% → 19%

Plan it

See it on the map →

California deer draw odds — 1 hunt here →

150 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

Elevation0–8,820 ft

Median elevation2,230 ft

Median slope16°

Where the ground sits

0 ft8,820 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 23%

E 23%

S 31%

W 23%

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

Ventura/Los Angeles Late Season Archery Either-Sex Deer Hunt · Hunt zone A32 · 36% public Los Angeles Archery Either-Sex Deer Hunt · Hunt zone A31 · 52% public Los Angeles Apprentice Either-Sex Deer Hunt · Hunt zone J13 · 52% public Santa Barbara Muzzleloading Rifle/Archery Buck Hunt · Hunt zone MA3 · 44% 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.