Regular season dates:
April 14 – May 12, 2012
Youth hunting is special permit hunting if on public land. Most if not all public gamelands require you to enter into a lottery and get a special permit. Check out the special permit link on the link below. They have an under 16 youth only day permit hunt on like the first Saturday in April and then the following Saturday an adult/youth hunt. FYI, if you have private land, you don't need to get into the lottery. It's well woth it as long as you spend several days in the middle to the end of March scouting.
Here is the hunting link for NC.
http://www.ncwildlife.org/Hunting.aspx
Hunting regulations:
http://www.ncwildlife.org/Portals/0/...12_Hunting.pdf