On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 17:23:15 GMT, Gunner wrote:
On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 06:01:07 -0800, Larry Jaques
wrote:

"Scarlet Crescent" via Google points to the Polish Army in Napoleon's
time. You don't look that old, G. g

In shooters vernacular its named for the scarlet half-moon scar
above, near or around the eyebrow, from contact with the fast moving
rear lens bell on a rifle scope.....

Guilty as charged.

I also have one right across the bridge of my (many times broken) nose

None there, but how's the web of your shooting hand? Got the 1911
hammer bite? Now, I've never had an M-1 thumb, but I got to watch one
happen. (The Hakim and the Ljungman that I have would, I think, make an
M-1 thumb seem mild...you should see those suckers cycle.)