I have one AR that throws them at the 2 o’clock, another one at the 4 o’clock. I don’t lose too much sleep over it.. I initially I was trying to figure it out, but stopped worrying. Like Rost says at the 2 o’clock easy to police up your brass and you aren’t pelting shooter next to you. One fella in our club his chucks them out at the 3 o’clock and I get hit occasionally. One day a hot one going to land on my neck lol.
LOL. Doens't take but one to learn to have a cap with neck flaps or a towel around your neck. 223 wasn't just horrible, 308 and the 06 from garand have a bit more surface area...to me they were way worse.