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If I can't shoot it through a tin can, and it's competition will shoot through three then I am FAR more likely to go with the competition simply for ease of getting said projectile where it needs to go. Of course there is no magic bullet, but that doesn't stop me from not wanting to carry a bb gun instead of a 44, or a 45.
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Then at what point do you stop with this type of thinking? Do you quit carrying your .44 magnum in favor of a .500 S&W? ....or, instead of a .500, do you go 'back in time' to the Victorian era and carry a Howdah pistol (double barrel of 60 caliber or so)....those were REAL manstoppers! And I'm sure that they will shoot through several boards, phone books, or whatever.
Reminds me of a guy I know...he is a deer hunter, and he thinks that the 7mm magnum isn't powerful enough to kill whitetail deer. Why? Because he shot one with a 175 grain bullet meant for elk....the bullet zipped right through w/o causing any shock, and the deer took off at the sound of the gun shot and was difficult to recover. I suggested he go to a lighter bullet, a lower velocity, or a different bullet with a thinner jacket. Couldn't convince him....he now carries a .300 Weatherby as his "deer rifle". Same guy feels that you can't kill wood ducks with anything less than a 3 1/2 inch magnum 12 gauge loaded with #2 hevishot. I guess I'll tell all those woodies I killed with my 16 gauge and bismuth #5s and 12 gauge 2 3/4" steel #3s that they really aren't dead.....I intend to go down in my freezer and do that after I'm done typing this
If caliber were all there were, then the point would be moot. If this were the case, then we would all be carrying .500s.....but it isn't and we aren't.
There are going to be instances where a full size 1911 isn't going to be practical to carry (the beach, for example). Also, I am VERY skeptical as to how shooting THROUGH something, esp. pine boards or phone books, can be extrapolated back to how a bullet reacts to flesh/bone/fluid.....to me, it sounds as if the theory was born to confirm the research, not the other way around. Shot a lot of wood with my .44 and .357 magnums; never saw any of the live critters I've shot with said calibers react similarly, and I'm willing to bet humans would react differently than animals shot with same rounds, making all those goats shot nothing more than 'research' done to confirm someones pet theory, i.e. the tests were done is such a manner as to skew the results towards one pet theory.
If you wish to believe those theories & extrapolations, so be it.....people tell me that my theory of creation is bunk, but I look at their theory of evolution, and while it can be proven on a small scale with small populations, there are still big gaps that they cannot explain away.
Carry your .44 & .45; I'm sure you shoot them well, and I hope you never have to use it.......