3 inch slugs, sabot slugs and rifled slug barrels all came about because of legislation and ways to circumvent it. Muzzleloaders too. All useless and not in the interest of cleanly killing anything.
I nominate this as the WINNER!
Sticking to the original post, this stuff should not exist. But they do, and they do for the exact reasons stated. But they also do a decent job given the parameters they were designed around.