Xander was in a good mood as he walked down the street and stopped in front of a shop window,

after a moment's thought he grinned and walked inside and was promptly greeted by a smiling man "Hi, I'm Sunny, if there's anything you need I'll be glad to help you anyway I can," he said as Xander grinned back

"Thanks, but I'm just Kinda browsing right now," he said as Sunny nodded and went back behind the counter and casually watched the young man walk through his store for several minutes.

Sunny had just gone back to categorizing the stock when the young man walked back up to the front counter. "That nice piece in the window over there, how much?" he asked indicating the one he wanted to Sunny. "From two seventy five to three fifty, depends on what you want to come with it," he said as the young man nodded.

"Got a place I can try it out? I'd hate to buy it and find out it's not right for me," he said as Sunny laughed.

"Yeah, got a place outback you can try it out," he said led the young man to the back and turned to him with a grin.

"What model," he asked

The young man looked at him like he had grown a second head "Forty Five? What else is there?" he said as the two laughed.

Sunny opened up the cabinet and handed the young man the pistol. Xander took the weapon from Sunny and smiled for several seconds as he walked to the firing range and slid a clip into the HK USP Match pistol. With a grin he took up a modified weaver stance and quickly emptied the clip into the target downrange.

When the slide locked back Xander hit the clip release and let the empty clatter to the ground as he quickly slid another empty clip into the gun before re-aiming downrange.

"Five seconds firing and three reloading, twelve round mag and one in the pipe," he said as he stripped the gun and checked the firing pins and double checked the barrel.

"No visible wear on the barrel after twelve rounds, no grime or wear on the firing pins or workings," he said to himself as he reassembled the gun and handed it back to Sunny and thought for a second before he dropped a hundred on the table.

"Let me try the Arcus 98 there," he said as Sunny just shook his head and handed the pistol to him with a clip of nine millimeter ammo.

Xander stepped back to the firing line, waited a five count and brought the gun up. Emptying the clip in the following seconds Xander again dropped the empty as the slide locked back and slammed a new clip home before retaking aim.

"Hmmm... Fifteen rounds and one in the pipe, six second firing time but a bit less then three for reload," he said as he again stripped the pistol.

"Pins and workings are clear and no visible wear on the barrel, a good feel and a steady shot," he said to himself again as Sunny watched from the corner.

After a second Xander took the pistol back over to him. "I'll take two of the Arcus and the USP... Match model," he said as he dropped three hundred dollars on the desk with his ID and looked at Sunny.

"Run the checks you need and I'll be back in three days to pick them up and pay off the rest of the debt," he said as Sunny nodded and picked up the cash before he wrote him out a receipt.

"You're not gonna go crazy or anything are you kid?" he asked as the young man grinned back.

"Nhaa, I sold my pistol when I moved and now I need a new one to enter the State Pistol Championship in December," he said as Sunny nodded and grinned.

"Then I hope to beat you there kid," he said as the young man walked out of the store and down the street. Sunny called up the young man's target and swallowed heavily before sending back one for himself and loading a clip.

//if that's the kind of competition I'm gonna deal with I need to practice a hell of a lot more// he thought as he looked at the centered grouping of the kid's target before he took up a similar weaver stance the kid had been using and started shooting.