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In the original True Grit, Cogburn, Mattie and La Boeuf are at a cabin questioning a couple of ne'er do wells on the location of Ned Pepper. Cogburn (John Wayne for you young'ns) describes him as having a scar on his lower lip. LaBoeuf questions him and it went something like:

LaBoeuf: "How'd he get the scar?"
Cogburn: "I shot 'im."
LaBoeuf: "You shot him in the lower lip? What were you aiming for?"
Cogburn: "His upper lip."

Still don't have enough to go on but maybe this guy was not a good shot but a bad one and he WAS aiming for center mass. Just a thought.