General Advice:
Bring the largest caliber semi-automatic you can. A bolt can suffice but has a greater chance of a dead hog running off. They bleed little, very little, for the first 20 to 30 seconds. Hard to track.
Go for the head and neck shots, to stop it DRT. (dead right there)
Even in a DRT scenario, the hind legs will still run. They just don't seem to know that the front end is trashed.
Locations:
Central Texas from just south of Abilene, to the coast around Corpus seems to have the largest general populations.
South of San Antonio was infested last summer and fall. No recent reports heard here on end of deer-season pig population.
What to Expect:
Expect to find them emerging just before sunset until an hour after sunrise.
They are near blind, so keep tall brush behind you and they wont see you.
Stay downwind and they won't smell you.
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Get too close and fire on them, and they won't be able to tell where you are. They will scatter, even directly to you.
If they find you close enough, they will swipe tusks at you. Stay on your feet and shove a snake boot in his face as he passes. Snake chaps will suffice.
Be prepared to gag if you cut/burst the intestines. If so, soak the meat in a bucket of bleach water for an hour after harvest. Then, hang to dry.
Boar meat is gamy and specific in odor. Some like it, some don't.
Sow and juveniles meat smells like fresh caught catfish and tastes sweet.
The smaller the pig, the more tender the meat.
Be CERTAIN you are targeting at a pig BEFORE you shoot. The tall brush here will make cows look like pigs at first, even thru a scope.