Variety is key in the October edition of Australian Shooter with no fewer than eight separate firearms and products under review. Rifles in the spotlight include the Steyr Mannlicher Zephyr II and the TCR 87 Hunter single-shot, while the Miroku ML11 Sport shotgun also features as does an eye-watering $200,000 shotgun offering from Rigby. We also run the numbers on the latest Vortex Viper riflescope, Federal Premium’s Gold Medal Berger target ammo, Nitecore Hunting Kit and the latest tools on offer from Real Avid. Sam Garro can’t help but admire the resilience of the Australian rabbit, we look at what needs to be factored in when building an effective night rifle and our ballistics guru Ian Thompson has signed off with his final Basic Ballistics column and we put the man himself in the spotlight.