Need some help for the next hunting seaon....

[garsrene]

Hi guys,

I just passed my hunting exam 95/100 not too bad for a spring chicken ....
And I'm try to hook up with someone who could show me how/where to hunt in California.
I live in Laguna Beach and I 'm ready to drive 2 hours,
Maybe someone could expalin to me those zone, A,B,C.D I don't understand , in Europe we haven't this kind of thinks, you just pay the land owner for the hunting season....

Anyway, for withch zone should I apply if I want to hunt in the Cleveland National Forest? I know there is lot of tags available but I don't want to waist my time scouting the hole forest

I'm mainly a traditionnal bowhunter (also a bowhunter instructor) but I love hunting with a shotgun for my springer .


Thanks for help


PS most of the time I go shooting at Oranco

 

[ZEKEDAWG]

Try the muley forum or the blacktail forum

But,

www.dfg.ca.gov will give a good explaination of the zones.

I will try to clarify it also.

Each general area in califonia has differing population densities of deer and different species that reproduce and live differently than the others.
So the game managers manage each zone based on the succession, birth rate and death rate, habitat and other factors.

A zone runs along the coast and is generally an earlier than the other seasons because the animals rut in sept oct so the managers want the hunt season over before the rut starts. There is generally a stable population from year to year, because there isn't alot of winter kill so they offer two tags( too bad one wasn't a doe tag)
B, C And D zones are basically the same. Black tail zones with decnet population. but the rut starts later in the year.

The X zones are special draw hunts. The mule deer populations fluctuate alot more than the black tail and must be managed more closely. So you have shorter seasons and much tighter quotas.
You will have to get drwan to hunt since these are the more desirable areas, yielding fewer but generally larger and better quality animals.

Hopefully that doesn't confuse thing. Check the dfg website and read up then come back and ask in the blacktail forum which tag you should get for a specific area.

To confuse thing even more for instance a B tag allows you to hunt any b zone( b-1,b-2,b-3,b-4 etc etc)