India, Nov. 7 -- Indian shooters have produced impressive performances to tune themselves up for the biggest test of the season yet. The ISSF World Championships (rifle/pistol), starting in Cairo on Saturday, would be as much a battle of skills as of nerves, with the world's best shooters taking aim.

India finished second to China in the first World Cup of the season in Buenos Aires (8 medals to China's 11), took third places in the next two legs in Lima (seven medals) and Munich (four medals) and came fifth (two medals) in the China (Ningbo) leg, where a second-string side was given an opportunity.

At the Asian Championships too, India's young shooters showed their new-found confidence to finish second (30) in the medal tally behind Ch...