I don't hunt with HPR or slugs...so maybe there is something I'm missing with that safety comment?

There is ALOT of big game killed regularly at a 1/4 mile with HPRs, yet I wouldn't expect the flight range of a 12ga slug to be anywhere near that distance?

I always thought the HPRs were excluded in Indiana due to human population density versus the amount of relatively flat ground in this state? i.e. for safety reasons. How can a 12ga slug be more dangerous than a HPR if both are fired across flat ground in the direction of a housing addition some 500 yards away?

I don't understand?...but then again, I know what the word "ballistics" means...and that's about it.