One of the things Jaspal Rana loved explaining about the complex sport of shooting was the trigger pull. He’d show videos of his most famous ward, Manu Bhaker, and then painstakingly explain the almost invisible movements that produce the perfect shot. To most, it looked like nothing at all. To Rana, it was everything. He could admire a ‘beautiful shot’, he often said, even if it missed the bullseye. It was a revealing quirk. For all his reputation as a straight-talker and fighter, Rana was fundamentally a shooting obsessive. A nerd who dedicated his life – first as an athlete, then as a coach – chasing perfection in a sport where success is measured in millimetres and movement is the enemy. Rana, who passed away on Friday at the age of 49 after a brief illness, spent much of his life doing two things exceptionally well: shooting with pistols and speaking his mind. In many ways, his glorious career was a study in contradictions. Rana possessed the stillness required of an elite pistol shooter but …