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If you can pull a tag for antelope up in the Alturas region, n.e. Calif., there are some big antelope there. I killed a nice buck not far from Alturas when I lived in Los Angeles a number of years ago.

L.W.

I moved here to Chico from Idaho about 11 years ago and I still feel new here. Most of the people I know here grew up hunting, but havn't been in years, lack of access, lots of private property and locked gates. There are lots of overlooked little wilderness areas in the north state that I've hade some luck with, B abd D zones, but mostly I rely on my lifetime Idaho licence.
Nick

Hi Paul,

Welcome to Kalifornistan!

Sending you a PM with my contact info. I work in San Rafael, live in Walnut Creek, and happy to tell you much of what I know .

HT

I agree 100%.

Might make a trip up this week.

I live in Tulare County but hunt in Shasta County. Still lots of tree farm area you can walk onto and hunt. However, where the roads use to be open, however, a Federal law suit against some of our major lumber tree farms has forced them to put up gates blocking hunters from driving on those roads. It wasn't the companies idea. Effecting them from California, Oregon and Washington. I think it's all part of the EPA's Agenda 21 philosophy. For FYI C zone is good hunting but you have to take part in a draw now. B zone has a lot of good hunting areas and those tags are usually available. East and North of Fresno there is also good hunting.

thanks for all the information guys!

Hey, Paul. How's it going?

dang man... CA is crazy with it's gun laws!!! other than that i'm doing well. how about yourself?

Doing great. How long will you be in CA (if you can say )?
Always glad to see you show up.

If you don't have private access for deer head for the wilderness areas in the Trinity alps, Marble mountains or the Yolla Bolly wilderness. The Yolla Bolly is all B zone, dont expect to see a whole lot of deer up there, if you stay above 6000 feet most of the deer you see will be bucks. Also dont be shy about tagging out on a good forked horn, I would say half of all the bucks up there will never get bigger than a forked horn regardless of how old they get. The YB also has some great black bear hunting, I never get a tag for them but typically see 2-3 each year while glassing the bottoms of the canyons. If you want more info on the YB hit me a pm, I spent my last 15 years in Cali hunting there and have more than a few honey holes.

try:

www.calguns.net

prayers sent for a quick recovery...

i'll be here about four or five years then i'm going to retire and move back to AK.

Sounds like a great plan. Those [bleep] will be retired and rich if they haven't spent it all.

Access to private ground is everything in California.
Get connected and your outlook on California will change completely.
Sometimes I think that I have it better here than some hunters in the Rocky Mountain states.
Back there, there is a very strong hunting culture, everyone hunts.
Private land is hunted hard by generations of family or it is leased up by outfitters and guides trying to make a buck, or it is pounded by the general public where hunting is very popular.
Out here the hunting culture is weak, not real popular for these leaf licking treehuggers, leaving large tracts of unhunted private ground, so that when you do find a friend that trusts you enough to hunt private, you most likely will have a sanctuary that has had very little pressure for many years if not decades.
I could be wrong, but that's kind of how it's worked out for me.

+1 on Calguns, not a terrible amount of hunting info there, but a great way to keep up on all the laws. Username is crob on calguns, on there a bit more than here. PM on there if you have any questions. New to hunting myself, but lifelong resident. Plenty of black rifle shops in the Sacramento area. Lots of shooting/hunting enthusiasts in the state, just outnumbered by the tree huggers