OK John,
I will still take the .22 Quick-Shock over a .380 unless I load the .380 with Quick-Shock and I have good accuracy with the .380. Otherwise I'm still a .22 QS kind of guy.
I still suggest that your argument is lacking the experience with the .22 Quick-Shock. Buy a box and try them and test them. Perhaps we will come to a least a near agreement.
And we are still talking apples and oranges if you are talking fast and up close emptying of a magazine into the center of mass of a bad guy. I hope to not be in that sort of situation. The one time I was in a defensive situation -- the BG had a club raised at me, was far larger than I, had a .357 in his waistband. I had an Iver Johnson TP-22 loaded with Stingers. He laughed at me because my gun was so small. But he was looking down the barrel and decided to drop his club and his gun with his off hand as I told him to and leave.
The cops got his gun and I escourted him off my property at gun point (my .22, I didn't touch his .357). I then called the cops with his description, tag # and car identification. He like you considered the .22 inept. But he decided he didn't want one in his skull and stopped the attack.
Other than that one time all my other defense situations have been against feral critters, numerous dogs and cats and a few snakes down in Florida. AND that one time I needed to have a pistol was on my land and I DID have the .22 with me. I didn't have any of the other 300 plus pistols and a few revolvers that I owned at the time with me. He wouldn't have lauged at my Desert Eagle .44 or my .44 Ruger but I didn't have them with me. If I had known I was going to meet a bad guy that day on my property I would not have gone there; not even with 4 big .44 mags in my belt.
The point of my argument is that the one you have with you is FAR better than any that you don't -- and that a person is more likely to have a .22 or some other small gun, for instance your mouse gun as some would call it in .380. And if one must have a mouse gun, then the Quick-Shock is wonderful... including the .22 Quick-Shock which is my choice when I'm afield!
Hey John, why not try some Quick-Shocks in .380 against any other .380 ammo you have available. Perhaps that is the better alternative for you.
Take care,
Jody