Barnes new Banded Solids are designed for stopping dangerous African big game. Like the highly successful TSX-Bullets, Barnes new Banded Solids feature multiple bands, or rings, which are cut into the shank of the most dependable solid bullets on the market. These bands relieve pressure as the bullet passes through the bore, eliminating concerns about high pressures in fine double rifles. The relief bands also virtually eliminate fouling.

Banded Solids have a wider meplat, which insures deep, straight-line penetration. These machined homogeneous copper/zinc-alloy bullets will not disintegrate or deflect when impacting heavy bone. They resist deformation so well some hunters have actually retrieved these bullets from game and reused them on later hunts.