Thanks for all the advice guys. I'm well into the planning stages now.
For one, I'm thinking I'll spend about $2,000 on a portable dome enclosure to live in, or build it myself from bare materials, which would be MUUUUUCH cheaper. Something like this-
Red Sky Shelters : Red Sky Shelters : Yome Home
Coupled with a woodstove for under $1000 (hopefully about $500), a table, and a cheapo bed inside. Outside the area will have a large fire pit and an area sectioned off by barbed or hot wire to keep out unwanted beasts and people. The enclosure will also be adorned with a minimal solar panel setup to run a medium sized high energy efficiency freezer (meant to be powered with solar) to store meat, costing somewhere around $2,000 for the panels and fridge setup altogether. The price for the solar panels could be considerably less if I build them myself. I should also be able to get away with having enough power to run very small appliances on sunny days, or LED lighting at night.
Then I'll probably need to spend around $1,000 on guns and ammo. I need a revolver and a rifle suitable for hunting birds and large game (pigs and deer). Coupled with weapons training and hunting classes, this will likely run me at least $2,000.
Then about $1,500~$2000 or so for tools and bear minimum food provisions, water treatment, other tools and preparations.
This plan should run me about $6,000~$8,000, minus travel expenses or any land expenses. Wherever I plan to go, I intend to maybe try renting a place to stay for a month or so, enough time to order in the larger supplies I need and gather things CLOSE to my new home instead of buying everything in California and moving it across the country.
Now, my biggest logistical issue is figuring out where the heck I can stay. I am considering Idaho, Arkansas (Ozarks area), Montana, or possibly the great lakes region. These areas seem to have lots of open land. The problem is finding land where I can at least somewhat legally go squatting. I'm actually considering federal wilderness preserves which usually seem to be open to hunting and such. I imagine that the state might not come looking for me if I decided to live on those lands, but I'm not sure about that.
I could REAAAALLLLY use some help in pinpointing a good area to use :/.