In sports that favor scoring, larger bullets (45 > 9mm( have an advantage, as long as you can reasonably control for recoil. In sports that favor speed, other factors can be more important. Telling is that in Bullseye of old, where you shot .45, centerfire (i.e. 9mm, 38 Special), .22LR, most folks skipped centerfire and shot their .45 again.