Same here, relatively. I got into PPC in 2013. I had been going to the Tactical Police Competition that was held in conjunction with the NPSC in Albuquerque for many years and decided I needed to try it. I love it, just wish I had gotten into it a long time ago. But I think everyone is correct in that young cops/shooters want TPC, IDPA, etc. style run n guns, where you can spray however many rounds you want into a target from 10 yards, as long as a couple are in the scoring area, you're golden. I'm firmly entrenched in Sharpshooter class for both open classifications, Expert for SSA, and Master for SSR (that's what a few good tourney's will get you, jeez!) but I never feel like I'm in competition with anyone but myself and my last match scores. I'm still on my quest to find a good Distinguished revolver/and or load! By the way, how did everyone do? Were there less shooters this year?