My Journey "Surprise Zen moment"

So today went on base with the NSCC for some "qualifying" with the .22 rifles. Not a big round I know, but hey it's a start for firing real weapons. I grabbed my target as told marks P for practice, and Q for Qualifying. I was given 10 practice rounds, and I found my spot. My shots were everywhere on that target. Finally came the Qualifying round, 20 bullets to go with. I had a target a good 10 to 20 meters away on an indoor range. I loaded the bolt, clicked it home, and fired the first shot. Direct hit center. I started to forget my problems, I heard nothing and felt nothing, I quickly *to me it was slowly* loaded in the rounds one after the other, click, boom, click, boom, click boom, hitting in or around the center. What I thought was 10 minutes, was actually 2 minutes. My buddy looked at me and was like, you needed to chill dude, I was chilled though. I told him this and he was like, dude you flew through those rounds. I waited for everyone to finish. My target came in, a very good grouping in the left of the center hitting 10, and 9, and 4 times in the 8 area. I scored a 182 in total. To be an "expert" marksman, you needed 175. This just helped me realize my potential and the skill I have, I looked forward to firing bigger weapons.

So what this has taught me was just that my zen is on the range. I can hit my target once I get that spot and that I'm ultimately calm. This will help in the Marine Corp, (god forbid) I have to see combat. Also we didn't have scopes, it was pure iron sights.