To be successful at keeping the hogs down, you practically have to employ a 24 hour approach. Now, they will lay up during the day in heavy cover, but it's hard to get good shots at them in cover without dogs or a few people to drive them out. There is another place that they like to lay up in the summer that is very conducive to killing several without needing a posse. During the summer, solitary boars and sounders will lay up in sparse cover on the hill tops. They get a good cooling breeze there, and they are pretty much undisturbed by human activity, as most people don't enjoy climbing in 100 degree heat. I stumbled upon this when shed hunting, and it has worked for me every time I've tried thus far. Start on the down wind side of the hill, and try to tailor your approach to force the hogs onto open ground. I use a high capacity 12 gauge with buck shot, but, if you're a good enough shot with a semi-auto rifle, that should work too. The two largest boars that I've killed on our ranch were taken this way. Oh, and it's a whole lot of fun too.
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