osbornk,
Sounds like a wise-man shopping to me
. I own all three as well (except I have a Sportage for my Kia). I too have had excellent performance from my C9 and HP22 (might add the Kia also).
I just evaluate things on price/quality ratio and go from there. I own lots of guns and needless to say the two aforementioned are the "least-expensive" ones but they are a hoot to plink around with and that's precisely why I bought them. I don't use either for SD but that's only because I have other guns I have long owned that have been devoted for that role for some time now.
I see some very interesting posts in the thread above of a few guns I even expected to see (and still have a few of them on my 2013 shopping list).
-Cheers