About a year ago The Rev mentioned something about peppering one and some folks didn't like it! The hog was about 50 yards across a river facing away from him and he did it with dove load in open bore gun.Like the old boar(the hog not the rev) would notice much damage from something like that!I would rather kill them too but if they are a pain in arse then pepper them at distance and educate them and get them out of way!