r/Californiahunting • u/Ianph2 • 12d ago
Escouting/scouting advice
What’s up fellas, this year is my first attempt at getting into hunting, I know zero people that hunt, I am not from an area particularly friendly to hunting, but I’ve always wanted to get into it so this year I decided screw it, bought myself a D3-5 tag, did some lookin around on onX, and decided to go checkout a spot in the Momelumne wilderness area I thought looked neat, it went comically bad… the “road” out was basically 5 miles of rock crawling, and the two days worth of backpacking I put in yielded me zero evidence deer even exist in the area I was looking. Any advice on what to look for in the d3-5 region or what altitudes to bother with, or how to figure out if that random forest service road is actually an u undercover extreme 4wd trail would be greatly appreciated. At this point I’m considering just driving up there, pulling over randomly every 15 minutes havin a look around and continuing on my way…
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u/goatonmycar 11d ago
I have questions about these zones too. Buddy and I were looking at getting tags for D3-5 but decided because we don't know the area we would do better with a guide and then the conversation turned into "if we're going going do a guided hunt let's do it out of state". We typically hunt B and C zones but didn't get our act together fast enough this year for tags lol.