Yeah, pretty obvious to everyone but Oldsarge that it wasn't true.

BTW, found this "documentation" while visiting the African Hunter website, in an article by Gunyana on Guns of the Pioneers:

"Selous comments though, that his old 4 bore 'Elephant guns' with a 1700 grain hardened lead ball pushed along by a good handful of powder had better penetration than most of the early rifles. It was this great penetration, coupled with a reasonably large wound channel that kept the big smooth bores in use on elephant up till the 1880's."