Nice, the harp is one of my favorite instruments. It's also widely misunderstood by (beginning) composers, where they write something that is easily playable on the piano but very difficult on a harp (hint: the harp is not a piano flipped on its side).
The Glock 17 is about as mild a 9mm as you can buy. Your shot pattern tells you that you're afraid of the bang and recoil. Why are you taking up pistol training? On the range you can wear ear protection, in an actual situation where you'd have to actually use it, the ear protection isn't there, and you'll get spooked. If you don't love the smell of gun powder in the morning, don't get aroused by the sound of gunfire, then this sport is not for you. If you want to keep it for protection, then 911 would be a better option. But no one should consider a firearm if they're innately afraid of it because it won't change, and there's nothing wrong with it. Uvalde showed that even a gaggle of police officers were never made to carry a firearm. Guns are not the remedy against fear and anxiety.
The harp looks deceptively simple, but isn't - your wife can probably tell a story or two about this.
LOL, too funny. That's a chart of a piece of music in F major, with sustained pedal notes and then arpeggiated patterns in the treble clef. The slur (wiggly thing in the treble clef) indicates that the notes should be played 'together', although on a harp you don't really have a choice as everything rings unless you dampen it (and then you have to indicate it with a dampen sign). Nice engraving by the way.
LOLShooting to the left is common and usually means you need to work on your grip.
"I'm still not sure whether I like guns but I chose to buy one, and now I got to live with it"
Even if you eventually decide you don't like firearms and decide to give them up at least you now know something about them and those that own and use them.
Now when you're at some high falootin Bay Area social event and someone starts in with the usual evil guns and gun owners BS you can shock them with some actual facts.
In the meantime you're working at becoming competent with yours instead just sticking in a drawer which is more than a lot of folks do. Congrats.
Ride Safe. Dr.Tramp....................
I went back to the range yesterday, and noticed I was much less rattled by the noise and the bang. It's probably just a matter of getting used to it. I don't I'll ever really enjoy it but who knows. it's not a sport for me, it's a means of self defense, so I just want to be as good as I can be. Yes 911 is the first go to and I love my local OPD but if somebody comes kicking down my door it'll take them some time to get here, by which time there's a good chance I will be dead or seriously injured. I'd rather shoot back and have the OPD over to investigate the details.
Good reply.
Oakland Police Department
Oakland is a great city to live, despite what you may have heard on the news. Yes there are some parts you should avoid, but every city has those.
Reminds me of FT. Worth
It's an artist work / live community, in an industrial neighborhood called Jingletown.
