Grumman tiger pilot reported discovering propeller damage after a hard landing.

Attributes
ACN	1440763
Time
Date	201704
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Cheetah Tiger Traveler AA5 Series
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Landing
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	None
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Student
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 14 Flight Crew Total 221 Flight Crew Type 101
Events
Anomaly	Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft

Narrative:

Returning from a solo cross-country. Winds were 9 knots [straight down the runway]. [During] landing; hit left wheel hard; bounced 1-2 times; and then decided to do a go-around; landed without incident. When I parked and shut the engine down; I noticed that the prop tips were bent.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Grumman Tiger pilot reported discovering propeller damage after a hard landing.

Narrative: Returning from a solo cross-country. Winds were 9 knots [straight down the runway]. [During] landing; hit left wheel hard; bounced 1-2 times; and then decided to do a go-around; landed without incident. When I parked and shut the engine down; I noticed that the prop tips were bent.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.