Golden count goes down but Indian shooters dominate CWG

The gold medals were hard to come by this time but Indian shooters were nonetheless mostly on target as they reaped a rich harvest of 17 medals in the Commonwealth Games with the surprising exception of Olympic silver-medallist Vijay Kumar and the seasoned Heena Sidhu.
India were hit hard at this edition of Commonwealth Games as the pair events, in which the country had won India had won 18 medals lats time, were dropped in Glasgow 2014.
This time, India managed just four gold with Vijay and the experienced Heena Sidhu crashing out in the qualification stage and another Olympic medallist Gagan Narang failing to grab a yellow metal.

Narang settled for a bronze in men's 50m rifle 3 positions in which he had won gold in both 2006 and 2010 Commonwealth Games.
He, however, had a decent show by winning a silver -- his first CWG medal in the 50m rifle prone event.
Narang failed to join Michael Gault of England and Jaspal Rana of India to have won nine gold medals in the Commonwealth Games history. He has won four gold each in the 2006 and 2010 Games.

"I am not disappointed all all for not winning a gold here. I won a silver in a new event, the best by an Indian in the Games. I have enough time left with me to break the record," he said.

Vijay was the worst performer of all the Indian shooters and he made a quiet exit from the Games after failing to qualify for the final round in men's 25m rapid fire pistol event.
The 2012 London Olympics silver-medallist finished seventh in the qualifying round to make a shock exit. Harpreet Singh though made up for Vijay's failure as he won a silver in the event via two rounds of nerve-wrecking shoot-off and brushing aside a penalty point docked for an 'out of time' shot.
Considered one of the brightest gold medal hope in Glasgow Games, Heena was another flop show as she finished a disappointing seventh in women's 10m pistol event finals.

World number one till a few months ago, Heena scripted history by becoming the first pistol shooter from India to win a gold medal at the ISSF World Cup finals in Munich, Germany, last November.