I took a box of the xtended range 3 inch number 5 and a box of the new longbeards 3 inch number 5's to a field this weekend to see how they stacked up. I usually never take 40 yard shots but thats where I compared them. Using a turkey target both loads would of easily of killed the bird. But the hit count using the longbirds were consistently much higher then the xtended range. I was impressed to say the least. I spent months last year trying to track down some xtended range shells since winchester was discontinuing them. I do think winchester has made a very decent replacement product for them tho.