Four years ago, at the Athens Games, he looked all set for an Olympic medal when he strolled into the final with a score of 597 out of 600 and was placed third. He was shooting like dream but in the final, he got a reality check when he shot the worst series of the day to crash to a seventh-place finish.

The Chandigarh-lad, however, did not lose heart as he took the struggling path and his father spared no effort to ensure the best of everything from equipment to coaches to training stints in Europe for exposure to a private shooting range at his farmhouse near Chandigarh.