The USPSA hands out fairly extensive surveys to the competitors at their national level events. While this holds a lot of interest to me as a competitive shooter, because of the link between competitive gear and what we end up seeing being adopted in self-defense/military/LE circles I thought others here might be interested as well. Of course, this is a game and all of the equipment is designed to win the game, but national-level competitors don't invest in gear that won't perform or won't last so there is value in that to all.