Rifle club sets sights on kids to train them hit the bulls eye

Many can have heard concerning the Chennai Rifle Club in Egmore and its stringent entry procedures, how the ones keen to hit the bulls eye required more than just money and exuberance to set their toes in the vary. Paper paintings, a advice from a senior police officer and a mandatory police verification, being a membership member used to be anything but simple.

But all this is set to modify, no less than for college kids desiring to grab the gun and hit the objective. The membership has introduced a scholars training programme in air rifle and air pistol occasions. Children who're above 10 years can enroll for coaching on the membership that functions out of the outdated police commissioner’s place of business on Pantheon Road.

The membership has engaged national-level shooters — Prem Sai and Rajath — to train scholars in basic and complicated talents. The membership has contacted schools in Chennai and would teach around 200 scholars per year. Children can undergo coaching in the 10m vary — which has stateof-the-art electronic targets — for air rifle and air pistol occasions.


Those keen can enroll for coaching by means of paying an entry price of Rs 2,000, an annual subscription price of Rs 750 and a yearly training price of Rs 3,000. Coaching categories shall be performed day-to-day from 6am to 8am and from 3pm to 7pm.

Chennai police commissioner A K Vishwanathan, who inaugurated the programme, said, “This is a superb opportunity for scholars who want to soak up shooting.”

“Money must by no means dampen their spirits. We are ready to lend a hand the deserving ones in getting trained and they may be able to touch us,” the commissioner said adding that he hoped the membership would produce shooters of international high quality.

Besides shooting, the training routine will come with yoga categories for psychological conditioning and physical coaching. Periodic sensible and theoretical analysis assessments shall be performed. The scheme targets to inculcate the spirit of sportsmanship and discipline among children.

Those who excel shall be fielded in the approaching 44th Tamil Nadu State Shooting Championship to be held in Madurai. Tamil Nadu Shooting Association secretary R Ravi Krishnan said the membership have been doing “its best possible” to expand the game in the town. “This programme will lend a hand in churning out more high quality shooters,” he said.

Vignesh, a student who is taking a look ahead to hitting the objective, said until two years in the past very few folks in Chennai had been concerned with shooting. “But that’s converting now with Indian shooters profitable at international occasions. I'm excited and would want to hold a pistol,” he said.