  We emphasise that charged slepton pairs produced via vector-boson fusion
along with two high-mass, high-$p_T$ forward/backward jets (in two opposite
hemispheres) can have a higher production cross-section for heavy slepton
masses than that from conventional Drell-Yan production at a hadronic collider
like the LHC. We analyse the signal and leading backgrounds in detail in the
minimal supersymmetric standard model with conserved baryon and lepton numbers.
Our investigation reveals that the mass reach of the vector-boson fusion
channel is certainly an improvement over the scope of the Drell-Yan mode.
