It's legal to carry a pistol IF you have a CHL (see my bolding of the TPWD wording above in your post). Cheap insurance and easy to take/pass the test if you feel you need it against hogs and also more so today if hunting the border with the influx of the drug mules and gangs like MS-13 crossing in.
As to the boar/bear question...have no info but would wager a guess that anything that would deter a bear would work pretty good on pigs.
Personally I'm more worried about a sow with shoats then I have ever been about a boar. Seems I'm always getting chased around by the female half of the swine family. (man there has GOT to be a joke in there somewhere...lol)
Hunt hard, hunt safe and welcome to the campfire here.
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"Our tools for the pursuit of wildlife improve faster than we do, and sportsmanship is the voluntary limitation in the use of these armaments." Aldo Leopold, 1949.
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