The difficulties involved in hunting snipe gave rise to the term "sniper", referring to a skilled anti-personnel military sharpshooter. Colonial American snipe hunters used some of the earliest versions of a telescopic sight invented by American statesman and inventor Benjamin Franklin. This early version of the telescopic sight utilized two lenses affixed inside a tube made of hardened pigskin with cross hairs etched into the glass using acid.

Nice, what year was this though? When they called them snipers?

Colonial times idk when that is..maybe 1800's? lol

Lol, i was just wondering with them using Pig skin. That would be disgusting to have your eye near.

Yeah dude that would be no good. They might sun dry it before though. They do that with meat to make it into beef jerky.