Best 'actual' snapshot & long-range shot techniques?

[derstosstrupp]

Originally Posted by bstanko6

Long range shots were never permitted according to the uboat commanders handbuch. Very frowned upon.

It was not until late war when the acoustic and pattern running torpedoes were brought into the war that a uboat could take long range shots.

The crazy ranges were rare but the my point was that pure estimation was used very frequently. A lot of the longer range firing reports are probably boats shooting outside of the escort screen later in the war.