The one with the 45 scored 6 hits on the 22 user and died. The guy hit 6 times with a 45 (military patch) took a bus and went to the hospital for treatment. These are documented instances out of police files.
I find it odd that when you find such reports, more often than not, the points of impact are not identified nor is the exact ammunition and bullet. Without knowing all the information, one cannot in any manner make any type of determination as to the results of the outcome and attempting to do such is pure foolishness. Just because "hits" were made does not mean that any of them were effective. Last time I was at the VA hospital, I sat next to a man who took 7 "hits" from a German with an 8x57JS machine gun before he sent the German on to the promise land his .45acp. Granted, the fellow next to me had some chunks of skin & muscle missing and he clearly suffered a lot from the wounds but it was also quite clear that none of the 8x57JS hits were fatal - could one then say that the 8x57JS isn't an effective man-stopper? Proven point that one cannot make a fair assumption of anything based on incomplete information. One can also not make any judgment based on only limited and select incidents as I have seen common whitetail deer take solid boiler room hits with the 7mmRemMag and .300WinMag yet continue to run for 150+ yards - selecting only those examples, one could make the biased claim that neither of these cartridges are effective on deer-size game. I seem to recall a well documented incident where a giant was killed dead by a stone from a simple hand sling - using just limited information, can we then make the claim that one hunting large dangerous game is best armed with a hand sling and a stone?
I am not trying to be rude here but when one applies logic and analysis to many of these arguments and claims, it quickly becomes apparent that the one making the claim or argument is either attempting to justify an ill conceived theory for some gain or they are showing little more than apathetic ignorance to the facts.
One of the fellows pushing modern in-line rifles with their sabot bullets makes the claim that round balls are ineffective and lack energy & velocity. The motive is not based on fact but on deliberate ignorance of fact for the sole purpose of personal monetary gain.
The same arguments were made concerning the 5.56x45 cartridge where fact was deliberately ignored and hype was being sold to those who were not simply purchased by Fairchild. The same willful and quite deliberate ignorance of fact remains in play yet today decades later every time some yahoo brings up "temporary cavity" and "hydrostatic shock". Neither of these can be proven terminally effective and all attempts to do such have provided clear and concise proof that neither claim has any merit. Proven fact, ballistics gel does in have the basic consistency of muscle but it does not replicate softer fat tissue and organs nor the harder ligaments and tendons let alone bone. B-gel also does not respond to bullet impacts in the same manner as living flesh because once the gel is displaced, the majority of it remains displaced giving very much false indications of permanent would channel results as much of the "temporary cavity" remains when the action stops and this does not happen with living flesh. Let's say every year 500 people die from blunt force trauma applied only to soft tissue yet in the same year there are 100 million incidents of soft tissue only blunt force trauma that do not result in death - using the complete information, one has no other alternative than to proclaim that blunt force trauma applied to soft tissue only has the potential to be fatal making it "possible" however the massive number of non-fatal incidents makes death from this type of injury much less "probable".
Thompson and LaGarde found that while the HV loads with jacketed bullets would not drop a cow with a magazine full, they often would not even produce any real evidence the cow had been shot (30 Luger, 9mm Luger with a FP FMJ bullet and Colt 38 Auto). The 450 Ely, 476 and 45 Colt would put a cow down in 3-4 shots to the body.
Again, no information on bullet type, load or where "in the body" the shots were placed as that can mean anywhere from the head to the tail. Incomplete information just as the switch from .38 to .45 in the Philippines is incomplete information. In every instance where this and similar incidents are brought up for discussion, the discussion lacks the critical information of projectile design. Yes, the .45 was less effective in the Philippines but for no other reason than the bullet design change, the same problem the .38 suffered from ... poor bullet design. This is clearly indicated where the 9x18 has much lower numbers on paper than the 9x19 yet the 9x18 is far more effective at producing terminal permanent wound channels than the 9x19 - no mystery to it, it's all in the bullet design that does not include the weight or velocity - The same is reason why the .303 British sucked so bad when it first came out, the problem was not with the cartridge but with the bullet design.
Now, putting this all together, one can quickly understand that the probability of a .58 mini causing a terminal wound is quite high yet when compared to the .575 RB, the fatal probability quickly turns in favor of the RB. Have you ever wondered why the original .45-70-500 bullets are built like they are and why that bullet shape carried over to the .30 Govt when it first came out yet the reasoning was quickly abandoned after 1900 only to result in serious terminal performance losses? Have you ever wondered why there is such a focus on energy numbers that only apply to paper rather than to actual permanent wound channel creation? Have you ever wondered why all the modern bullet mfg's completely ignore how much energy and wound channel depth and diameter is lost in the time it takes for their bullet noses to expand just to bore diameter?
Books are wonderful things and while the information they contain is valuable, more valuable is the amount of thought that is provoked by the information. When one fails to question even his own answers, he has become blinded by ignorance and apathetic to discovery.