What dangerous game is too big for shotgun slugs?

[RPZ]

I read a book by Capstick (famous safari guide) that he preferred a winchester model 12 with buckshot to track wounded leopards and the like.

Somewhere, I have, and have read, Death in the Long Grass by Capstick. Great read, I shall have to find it and reread it sometime.

 

[RMc]

I've got an article at home where Ross Seyfried hunted cape buffalo (one of the five most dangerous animals in the world) with a customized Seville with a 345 grain bullet at 1550 fps in .45 Colt. So I think slugs from a 12 gauge would do the trick as well.

Conventional "Rifled Slugs" are simply soft lead thimbles designed to pass through choke bore barrels safely.
Such lead thimbles, even at 1600 fps, are not the penetration powerhouse rounds of shotgun myth!

Don't believe it? Check this test out:

 

[RPZ]

Vba is not talking about the hollow Foster type slugs. Ross Seyfried was a very experienced hunter, and would never have attempted to shoot a cape buffalo with them either.

The .45 345 grain bullet would have had very good sectional density and been hardcast and or heat treated. A hardcast/heat treated shotgun slug of similar proportions and or much heavier weight at similar velocities would be capable of similar performance.

 

[Mr. T]

The only thing I can think of would be an elephant or maybe a rhino, and then maybe not even them. They are formidable against grizzlies and polar bears....so not much if anything I can think of.

 

[armoredman]

The Maasai Hunt Lions with a spear. It's a right of passage into manhood.

These guys clank when they walk. Yikes.