California Deer MA1 — MA1

San Luis Obispo Muzzleloading Rifle/Archery Either - Sex

What you may take
San Luis Obispo Muzzleloading Rifle/Archery Either - Sex
Weapon
Muzzleloader
Where
Season (2025)
Nov 29 – Dec 14, 2025
Tags (2025)
150
for 108 first-choice applicants

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Odds by point level — 2025 draw

Undersubscribed: 108 of 135 tags claimed by first-choice nonresident applicants in 2025. Everyone who applied drew and the rest went to the leftover draw — the 100% reflects low demand, not a great tag. A code like this can flip the year demand catches up.

Prior-draw probability for a first-choice nonresident applicant. 135 tags, 108 first-choice applicants. Source: 2025 Deer Tag Drawing Statistics · p. 1.

Points Your chance Applicants Drawn
0 100% 94
1 100% 9
2 100% 3
3 100% 0
4 100% 2
5 100% 0
6 100% 0
7 100% 0
8 100% 0
9 100% 0
10 100% 0
11 100% 0
12 100% 0
13 100% 0
14 100% 0
15 100% 0
16 100% 0
17 100% 0
18 100% 0
19 100% 0
20 100% 0
21 100% 0
22 100% 0
23 100% 0

Points pass + random pass, from published pools. A dash means California Department of Fish and Wildlife did not publish a count for that level — it prints exact counts around the cut and folds the rest into a band. How we compute these.

What it costs (2025 nonresident fees)

Cash to apply
$588.01
Out of pocket if unsuccessful
$588.01
Total if drawn
$588.01
Refunded if unsuccessful
$0

At the 2025 odds, expected cost per hunt-year ranges from $588.01 (enough points to draw) .

Nonresident hunting license · paid at application $219.81 source
Nonresident First-Deer Tag Drawing Application (full tag price fronted at application) · paid at application $368.20 source

Next application window: opens Apr 15, closes Jun 2, 2027 (expected) · results ~June 15. Last cycle's schedule rolled forward — confirm when the agency publishes.

Point creep & years to draw

Insufficient history (0 of 3 draws) — a creep trend needs at least three draw years with a published drew-out level.

Seasons (2025)

Split 1: Nov 29 – Dec 14, 2025 p. 1

Year by year

The standard draw for nonresidents, one row per year. California runs a second, random pass after the points pass; it is shown beside the year it belongs to.

Year Tags Applicants Applicants per tag Points needed Random pass Source
2025 150 108 0.7 15 tags 2025 Deer Tag Drawing Statistics · p. 1
2024 150 131 0.9 15 tags 2024 Deer Tag Drawing Statistics · p. 1
2023 150 139 0.9 15 tags 2023 Deer Tag Drawing Statistics · p. 1
2022 150 145 1.0 15 tags 2022 Deer Tag Drawing Statistics · p. 1
2021 150 179 1.2 15 tags 2021 Deer Tag Drawing Statistics · p. 1
2020 150 158 1.1 15 tags 2020 Deer Tag Drawing... · p. 5
2019 150 122 0.8 15 tags 2019 Deer Tag Drawing... · p. 1
2018 150 131 0.9 15 tags 2018 Deer Tag Drawing... · p. 1
2017 150 138 0.9 15 tags 2017 Deer Tag Drawing... · p. 1
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How to read these numbers

Every percentage on this page is a prior-draw probability: the chance an applicant with that many points would have drawn in the draw year shown, computed from the agency's published results. It is not a forecast — quotas, applicant numbers, and point creep change every year. Every figure links to the agency document it came from. Where a state does not publish a number, we show a dash, never a zero. Hunts with fewer than five tags show counts instead of percentages. Fees show the fee year used. Read the methodology for the engine details.

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