If one could hunt big game and dangerous game without a PH slot wouldn't do it.

Myself I found it far more fun and enjoyable.

Very true, the choice of tool, the firearm, is given more thought, less stuntster choices, more effectiveness desired. All on ones londsome self ...

I like my Jeffery DR .450 NE for that reason.

Carrying a BLR .308 once for real pigs and feral donkeys, I questioned whether four or five round magazine was enough for the grumpy scrub bull glaring at me from above on the slope. Luckily he never charged. I didn't have permission to shoot scrub bulls as well.

A 9.3 or .375 would have been preferable. Or some medium bore, 8mm and up.