Afternoon at the range, and other sundry stuff

Yeppers, dredged up the AR 10 and shot some of the donated PPU brass today. 168 g. Speer Target Match over the usual Varget load. Very windy from left to right and in your face. Without bragging (well, yes), I shot very well, and/because my wind calls were very good. At 528, I was holding 5 MOA left, at 900 I was holding 14.0 left! I shot 6 targets, three of them first shot hits, and expended 20 rounds. I wasted several at 1107 ( though I had one go center an inch or two high) – I maxed out the scope and was doing an 8 MOA holdover and 19-20 left.
It felt good.
I was still glowing when a Statey flashed me for going slightly fast into town. After noticing the Glock 21 on the passenger seat, and my immediate disclosure of returning from the range and being a board member, we talked about my AR and his upper and lower he regretted selling.
Just a smiling warning from NH’s finest. I’m glad I was wearing my desert tan jacket with camo American flag, etc.

In other news, an observant and knowledgeable reader had concerns about the tracks on the Hornady brass.

Yeah, it looks bad. I was saying, oh, dear, myself. But there is no actual marring of the brass; it’s more just highly polished. I used thick and slick camo duct tape on the jaws of my pliers. When the brass slipped, it left teeth marks but never broke through. I’ve tried to hold brass with my finger pressure only while reaming, but it was just too much torque. I’ll follow the brass through the next rounds of shooting.
And I don’t think too much brass is being removed. Swaging just did not work for me.

Only bad thing was that I noticed my eye relief seemed off.