Marrakai: I don't think it's a question of "open mindnedness" if you will. People use longbows to take elephant also, but just like when people extoll the virtues of Karamojo Bell and his 7X57 and elephants, the rest of the story is often overlooked and that is, how many were wounded and ran off to either recover or die?
The issues with the slow velocity 458s was real and documented. And perhaps most important of all, IF slugs were that reliable, and given the cost of doing business, don't you think it would have fostered some kind of following in the PH community? Plainly stated, I think somebody's trying to sell some neophyte SAP a bill of goods regarding slugs, but if you know any PHs go ahead and ask them if you could book a hunt for any of the Big Five (or six) and tell them you'll be armed with a 1500 fps pumkin roller of a smoothbore shotgun and slugs, then post their answers here. jorge