Actually Chris your doing fine... and if I were you I would go along with the certified gun nuts on the board (not the grumpy ones)and consider getting some input on improving your style. Just like any sport consulting a pro usually helps improve your game.
Now I have never had any formal training (other that shooting .22 rifles in boy scouts) and I can do a four inch group with my 9mm auto at 25 yards or a two (or less) inch group with my friend .357 at the same range. Used to drive my ex-Marine uncle crazy when we visited Kansas... he would take the "city boys" out to the range and let us fire off his guns... and he'd look at us funny and ask "are you SURE you never fired a gun before?"
But then again we were freaks... we used to make our own gunpowder in the garage and blow stuff up so YMMV