I sighted in and patterned the long beard #6's out to 40 yards this morning,I was more then happy with the long beard #6's at 40 yards,there was 25+ pellets in the kill zone on the turkey, and when I put the mag blend shell in and fired it at 40 yards there was 40+ pellets.I will be using both from my 870.I would not hunt with it if I wasn't confident out to 40 yards.I was very happy with the long beards,I had my .575 carlson non ported in gun.Good luck this spring,I start wednesday and can't wait.