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I think the most underrated deer tag in California is the one that comes in the mail every year and the one you can scout the most. For me that was the b zones. Hard scouting all summer led to amazing opportunities on an OTC tag.

Back in the day

From my experience in B-Zone scouting is key and once you find an area with bucks just keep hunting that area. Also a lot of b zone hunters stay on the roads and the country is so rough and thick that you don’t even have to be that far from a road to get into a lot more deer. My friend and I...

J12 is a great hunt but just really tough odds to draw. I had the J3 tag when the junior age was 17, so the year was 2016 and yes you are allowed to scout the Tehama Wildlife Area beforehand. My dad and I scouted the area for three days before season and we saw one shooter buck each day of...

Yeah, get rid of all youth hunts, the youth have had it too good for too long. Seriously get over yourself, last time I checked the youth are the next generation of hunters, I think youth hunts are a great way to get youth involved in the outdoors and provide them with opportunities that they...

They changed the dates to right before the general rifle season opens.

lif, PM me and I’ll give you all the information I can to help your son out.

That’s sad that they took away that amazing opportunity for the youth hunters, ODFW is a joke.

Get ahold of Jacob Frye, he’s a great guide, super knowledgeable and regularly gets guys on fish!!

It’s to early for pre-rut activity and yes the bucks are not moving during daylight hours a lot right now, any buck that has made it through more than 2 hunting seasons will generally be bedded down or in cover by about an hour after sunrise. Some sooner and some a little later but that’s a good...

Congratulations to both of them, awesome pictures, thanks for sharing!!

I started scouting in the end of May and I was up in B-Zone at least once a week all summer long on either BLM or National Forest Land, and after missing a big buck by mere inches in archery I was able to harvest my biggest black tail to date yesterday. He is 20” wide, has double eye guards and...

So I found out I had drawn the tag and I was out there the next weekend scouting and hanging trail cameras. Running trail cameras was really fun and it was interesting to see how these deer behaved at day and night, the first big buck I found was on my second scouting trip, he was a really...

He was about 3 miles away from the nearest source of food and water, and in the pictures it looks like good visibility but when you’re down in there it’s like a labyrinth.

My 2020 California Mule Deer Public land solo hunt, scouted for 14 days over the summer

I scouted for 14 days over the course of the summer and this was the best buck I found and my biggest buck to date. Public land solo hunt.

When my dad and I were up there last year there was a lot of antelope. Great area with some killer genetics. It should be a fun hunt for you and your daughter. PM me if you want some more info, happy to help out.

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One of the youth tag holders killed a 400" bull last year in Northeastern, and it was the cover page of Eastman's Hunting Journal a few issues back.

LAST EDITED ON Jun-13-19 AT 01:32PM (MST)[p]>We live in a State that >covers most of the West >Coast, but has very little >to offer. A smaller State, >such as Virginia on the >opposite coast has much more >opportunities for hunters. B Zones 14,642 D3-5 Zone 19,023 I see roughly...

I drew B-Zone, I'm thankful for the opportunity to hunt deer in my home state every year, even if its not the most glamourous tag. If you hunt hard, scout and put in the time, you can still have a quality hunt.

LAST EDITED ON Mar-14-19 AT 07:34PM (MST)[p]Well if you look at draw odds people really like to hunt X5b, X5a, X2, M3, M9, A14, A27, G3, G6, G37, G38 and G39; and I have seen some really big deer come out of those units, so if you have maximum points and put in for one of those tags go ahead...

Yeah thats fine, but they have to release the grizzly bears in the Bay Area and Orange County, no shortage of food down there for the bears.

My dad taught me a lot about hunting and he still is, but what really helped me understand deer hunting even better was Mike Eastman's book "Hunting High Country Mule Deer", now I know that you may not be hunting deer in the high country, but the book just contains a lot of practical information...

Yes, in the article on their website it says "This is 100% fully donated by the Rickert family and SC2 Outdoors, we just now need the youth hunter."

LAST EDITED ON Aug-13-18 AT 00:06AM (MST)[p]SC2 Outdoors is giving away fully guided hunt for one Junior tag holder who has the north eastern California elk tag. The hunt code for this tag is 409, this is a great opportunity for one of the two lucky youth tag holders if you know one of the tag...