OK......this is just my opinion.......if your interested in Prepping or Survival or both........stay the "Hell" out of the New Jersey woods during hunting season, double especially deer hunting season. This is advise from someone who was hunting deer in that area (but in PA. and NY) 65 years ago, and it was dangerous back then, it sure can't be safer today.
It requires near zero skill to kill a deer, and actually near zero skill to find a (NON-Trophy) deer to kill. The skills you need are the gutting and butchering, and that is basically the same for nearly all animals. That skill, field dressing, and butchering, and maybe quartering and back packing the meat, that could all be learned on any farm or ranch, or maybe taxidermy shop, as many "So Called Hunters" now days just shoot it and take it to someone else to process.
I do support you in your quest to learn this skillset. If you are hell'bent on going afield, then I strongly suggest doing it the last "FEW" days of the season, as there will be only 3% to 5% of the number of crazy hunters out there looking for anything that moves.