Shivpuri District Rifle Association

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Association Members:

Patron-. Suresh Singh Sikarwar
President- Mr. Sandeep Bhonsle
Vice President- Mr. Rajinder Singh
Hon. Secretary- Mr. Waqar Rohila
Joint Secretary- Mr. Jitendra Dhakad
Treasurer- Mrs Bhawana Asthana
Members- Miss. Shubhra Chaturvedi
Mr. Pradeep Gupta
Mr. Chote Khan
Mr. Gurpreet Singh Johar
Mr. Durga Das

18/02/2026

🚨 ISSF 2026 Important Update — Every Rifle & Pistol Shooter Must Read This 🎯

Recently ISSF released an official notice (dated 16 Feb 2026) regarding some major changes coming into competitions from this season onward.
This is not a small technical update — it can directly affect shooters who are competing at national and international level.

I am explaining this in simple language so shooters and parents can understand clearly.

📄 Reference: ISSF Official Notice (16 February 2026)

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🔴 1. Live Aiming (SCATT Sensor) Will Be Used in Finals

ISSF is introducing live aiming technology in 10m Rifle and 10m Pistol finals to improve spectator understanding and TV presentation.

What this means practically:

✅ If you reach ISSF finals, your rifle must already have a SCATT MX-W2 mounting bracket installed
✅ During finals, officials will attach their sensor on your rifle
❌ Your personal SCATT cannot be used in competition

👉 Important point:
Many shooters currently do NOT have proper mounting provision on their rifles.
Last-minute installation during competition will create panic.

Even a small weight change near the barrel can affect balance and hold.

So preparation must start early.

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🔴 2. Rifle Jacket Testing Will Become Strict

ISSF has also confirmed that new stiffness testing rules for rifle jackets will be strictly enforced starting from major competitions in 2026.

This means:

⚠️ Old jackets may fail under new testing
⚠️ Modified or over-stiff jackets are risky
⚠️ Growing junior shooters are most vulnerable

If your jacket fails equipment control, performance does not matter — you cannot compete.

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🔴 3. What Problems Shooters May Face (Real Range Situation)

From coaching experience, these are common risks:

• Sudden finals qualification but equipment not ready
• Improvised mounting solutions rejected by jury
• Jacket stiffness failure before match
• Mental stress due to new technology on rifle

Preparation removes pressure.

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✅ 4. What Shooters Should Start Doing Now

Simple action plan:

✔ Install SCATT-compatible mounting early
✔ Train occasionally with mounted system to adapt balance
✔ Check rifle jacket compliance before major competitions
✔ Avoid excessive stiffening methods
✔ Keep equipment documentation ready

Finals preparation should start months before — not one day before.

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🎯 5. Opportunity for Smart Shooters

Every rule change creates advantage for prepared athletes.

Shooters who adapt early:

✅ Feel comfortable in finals
✅ Avoid equipment stress
✅ Gain confidence over competitors

Preparation = Performance Stability.

Do not wait until you reach finals level.

Prepare equipment now so when opportunity comes, you are ready.

Small preparation today prevents big stress tomorrow.

ISSF new pistol grip rule.
07/02/2026

ISSF new pistol grip rule.

29/01/2026

✍️ A phone during training almost never feels like a problem, because it is not used during shots and not in the middle of a series, but precisely during pauses. In those moments when it seems that nothing important is happening. A set is finished, the gun is lowered, there is a minute before the next action, and the hand almost automatically reaches for the screen. To check a message. To reply. To scroll for a moment.
At first glance, this does not seem to interfere with anything. A pause is still a pause. But if you start observing yourself more closely, the difference is felt quite quickly. You return to the exercise and suddenly realise that inside you need to gather yourself again. To enter again. To search again for the state that just moments ago was there without effort.
This does not happen once. It happens constantly. Every pause with a phone becomes a small exit from training and an equally small entry back in. As a result, instead of one continuous process, you get many separate beginnings. Each of them requires attention and inner effort. That is why by the end of the session a kind of fatigue appears that does not feel like normal physical load, even when the volume was familiar.
From the outside this may look like distraction or instability. Inside, it is simply a loss of continuity between actions. You do not lose skill. You do not forget technique. You lose the continuity of the process. And then, during a series or at the start, it suddenly becomes difficult to hold the state for more than a few shots. There is a sense that it keeps slipping away, even though formally you are doing the same things as before.
The phone itself is not an enemy and not the cause of all problems. It simply keeps pulling you out of the process at the very moment when you are still inside it, even if it feels like you are already resting. Training consists not only of shots, but also of what happens between them. And it is precisely these intervals that gradually shape the ability to remain inside the process instead of constantly starting over.
This is not about bans or discipline. It is about understanding what happens to you when every pause stops being part of the training and turns into an exit from it. And when this becomes noticeable, your relationship with those pauses changes on its own.

Happy Republic Day to all the Indians across the globe.
26/01/2026

Happy Republic Day to all the Indians across the globe.

Shivpuri District Rifle Association wishes a happy and joyful Birthday to it's Secretary Mr.Waqar Rohila today on his bi...
24/01/2026

Shivpuri District Rifle Association wishes a happy and joyful Birthday to it's Secretary Mr.Waqar Rohila today on his birthday.

09/01/2026

The advice “believe in yourself” sounds encouraging, but in a professional context it is too imprecise to be truly useful. Belief in oneself is a state, and any state is unstable. It changes with training load, with the phase of the season, with the competitive context, and with accumulated fatigue. Building stability on such a foundation means starting from something inherently fragile.
Under pressure, an athlete does not become more confident. Confidence often decreases. This is a normal reaction of the nervous system. When the entire support system is tied to confidence, attention in difficult moments shifts away from action and toward self evaluation. Am I focused enough. Why has my confidence dropped. What is wrong with my performance. At that point, the process is already lost.
A professional athlete is not defined by constant self belief, but by knowing what to do when confidence is absent. They do not wait for the right state to appear. They rely on a clear structure of actions, a well understood sequence, and experience gained from working in different conditions, including challenging ones.
For this reason, constant encouragement and attempts to “build confidence” often produce the opposite effect. The athlete begins to believe that the right condition must come first and only then action is possible. In reality, it works the other way around. Action comes first. Sometimes confidence follows. Sometimes it does not. And this does not prevent performance.
True stability is built not on belief in oneself, but on the ability to execute one’s work regardless of internal fluctuations. Without expectations. Without self persuasion. Without monitoring internal states. This is what separates those who remain stable under pressure from those who depend on confidence.
Confidence can be a pleasant bonus. But it should never be a condition.

06/01/2026

In sport, discipline often looks convincing. A clear routine. A weekly plan. Training logs. Correct wording. From the outside everything appears organized. It creates a sense of control and seriousness. But at a certain level it becomes noticeable that this discipline does not always lead to real progress.
The problem is that order is easy to confuse with work. An athlete follows the schedule, shows up on time, completes the prescribed volume. They are disciplined. Yet the key changes do not happen. Behavior under pressure remains the same. Decisions are postponed. Difficult moments are avoided. And this is where the illusion of progress appears.
The illusion of discipline is especially dangerous at a high level. Because it looks like maturity. The athlete seems responsible, reliable, manageable. They do everything right. Except for one thing. They avoid the points where real behavioral change is required.
This often shows up in small choices. Selecting safe tasks. Repeating familiar patterns. Carefully executing what already works. All of this can be done with discipline. But none of it necessarily leads to growth.
The hardest part for a coach at this stage is noticing that the problem is not a lack of order, but an excess of it. When discipline becomes a way to protect against risk. When routine and structure start replacing work with vulnerable zones.
From the outside, the athlete looks ready. They try hard. They are engaged. They follow the requirements. And that is exactly why the illusion can last for a long time. Until a moment comes when it is necessary to step beyond habitual behavior. And then it becomes clear that behind the neat discipline there is no readiness for change.
In sport, this always comes at a high cost. Because time passes, while the system remains the same. And the higher the level, the less room there is for such mistakes.
Sometimes it is worth asking an uncomfortable question.
Is discipline working for development, or is it only creating a sense of order.

31/12/2025

🎉🔫 Wishing you all the shooters out there a cracking New Year! 🎯 May your aim be true, your focus sharp, and your shots be on point! 💪 Here's to achieving all your targets in 2026! 🥳 Happy New Year! 🎊

31/12/2025

✍️ The end of the year is traditionally used for summing up, but most often these summaries are reduced to numbers, rankings, and formal indicators that create a sense of completion yet do not always reflect the real condition of the system or the quality of the decisions made. This year revealed much more than what can be seen in reports and protocols, because it allowed for a closer look not only at the level of preparation, but also at how sustainably the processes are built.
It became more noticeable which systems can calmly withstand load and which require constant support, where an athlete is capable of acting independently and where results largely depend on external control, where a coach manages the process and where they are forced to intervene continuously. For many, it became clear that technique and volume of work alone no longer guarantee further progress, that discipline without inner responsibility eventually reaches a limit, and that excessive safeguarding prevents athletes from learning how to make decisions in the moment.
This year helped separate process from result more clearly, because where a clear structure was in place and responsibility was properly distributed, movement and the ability to adjust were preserved even in difficult situations. Where everything relied on motivation, pressure, or habitual action by inertia, difficulties became more visible. In such cases, problems arose not because of individual mistakes, but because of the lack of a skill to take responsibility for choices and their consequences.
December 30 is a suitable day to acknowledge these observations calmly and without rushed conclusions, to look at what truly supports long term stability and what works only under certain conditions. This is not a day for sharp decisions, but a day for careful reflection that helps one enter the next year without unnecessary expectations or illusions.
And perhaps the most important thing this year offered was the opportunity to understand oneself and one’s work a little better, to see where things were difficult, where learning happened along the way, where not everything came together immediately, yet movement continued nonetheless. May this understanding become not a reason for judgment, but a point of support from which one can calmly and without haste step into the next year, carrying forward everything of value that this year has already given.

Pistol New Rules Few Things Changed In Pistol Grip... Take A Look At it...1️⃣ General Grip PrinciplesThe grip must only ...
21/12/2025

Pistol New Rules Few Things Changed In Pistol Grip... Take A Look At it...

1️⃣ General Grip Principles

The grip must only support the hand, never the wrist.

When holding the pistol normally:

The wrist must be clearly visible

No part of the grip may touch the wrist

Glue, resin, sticky substances are forbidden

Chalk, talcum powder, magnesium are allowed

Compressible materials are NOT allowed

Adjustable grips are permitted only if they still follow all rules

V2 ISSF Rules 2026 DRAFT

2️⃣ Grip Length on Top of the Hand (Critical Control Point)

The rear/top part of the grip (between thumb & index finger web):

Maximum length: 30 mm (25 m pistol)

Maximum length: 40 mm (10 m air pistol)

Measurement:

From first contact point on top of the hand

To the deepest part of the grip

📌 This prevents wrist support and excessive leverage

V2 ISSF Rules 2026 DRAFT

3️⃣ 🔺 Grip Rear Angle (MOST IMPORTANT ANGLE)

The rear surface of the grip must slope upward

Minimum angle: 45° upward

Angle reference: centre line of the barrel

🚫 Flat or backward-angled grips are ILLEGAL

📐 Purpose:

Prevents wrist locking

Ensures true one-hand pistol control

V2 ISSF Rules 2026 DRAFT

4️⃣ Curvature of the Grip (Encircling Rule)

The grip:

Must NOT encircle the hand

Must curve downward, not upward

From the deepest part of the grip backwards:

No surface may be parallel to the barrel

No surface may rise toward the barrel

📌 Ensures no anatomical locking of the hand

V2 ISSF Rules 2026 DRAFT

5️⃣ Heel Rest Rules

Heel rest is allowed, but:

Must be at 90° or more to the grip

On wrist side:

End must be cut at ≥ 30°

Heel rest must NOT prevent hand from slipping naturally

V2 ISSF Rules 2026 DRAFT

6️⃣ Centre Line Rule

The centre line of the bore must pass above the web
(between thumb & index finger)

📌 Prevents extremely low grip positions

V2 ISSF Rules 2026 DRAFT

🔍 HOW TO CHECK GRIP ANGLE & SHAPE (PRACTICAL METHOD)
✔ Tools Required

Angle gauge / digital inclinometer

Flat ruler

Marker pencil

ISSF grip diagram reference

🛠 Step-by-Step Grip Angle Check (45° Rule)

Step 1:
Place the pistol on a flat table
Ensure barrel is perfectly horizontal

Step 2:
Mark:

Barrel centre line

Rear grip contact point on top of hand area

Step 3:
Place angle gauge on rear grip surface

Step 4:
Measure angle between:

Barrel centre line

Rear grip surface

✅ Legal: ≥ 45° upward
❌ Illegal: < 45°, flat, or backward

🛠 Checking Grip Length (30 mm / 40 mm)

Use calipers or ruler

Measure from:

First grip contact on top of hand

To deepest grip point

🛠 Checking Encircling

Visually inspect from rear

Grip must NOT wrap around fingers

Rear curvature must slope downward only

17/12/2025

Two more medals for M.P. in on going Nationals.

1) 25 mtr std pistol jr women national championship
NANCY SOLANKI,
MANVI JAIN,
AARADHYA MISHRA
Team Silver medal

2) 25 mtr std pistol jr women civilian NANCY SOLANKI,
AARADHYA MISHRA,
ANCHAL SINGH
Team Gold medal

Congratulations to the team. 🎉👏

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