A good comparison is a NATO 9mm and a 1911 .45. The 9mm is a smaller round with a higher velocity than the .45. However, feedback I get from fellow Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan is--if you shoot someone with a 9mm, all you do is pizz him off. Nail him with the good old .45 and he's down.
Why? A smaller round moving at a higher velocity can simply penetrate and exit an enemy's body doing minimal damage. The larger round moving slower will create all sorts of mayhem and lodge in the middle of the body, continuing to be problematic.
That's why, several years ago, the Corps said to heck with NATO's 9mm and ordered over $20 million worth of .45's.
From a practical standpoint, several years ago I had to put down a couple of stray dogs. I hadn't much choice or much time. They were terrorizing our neighbor's kids. I grabbed the first thing handy, a 9mm auto. It dang near didn't get the job done. It took at least two vital organ shots and one direct head shot on each dog to put it down. I went through two magazines just putting two dogs down at short range. I'm sure I'd have gotten the job done a lot faster it I'd had the time to get my 1911A .45 out. Or my .44 Mag for that matter.
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