Gents:
For what it is worth...At the SCI show in January I took home two boxes of Barnes banded solids and later bought two more. I wanted to see for myself how they would do in my vintage Wilkes .600 nitro express. I also used the data for two pages in my book on the .600. Bottom line--no problems at all. Accuracy was the same, the rifle opened with ease. Folks have related to me stories of the rifling being visible on the outside of the barrels, the barrels splitting, and (my favorite) the rifling lands being pushed several inches out of the muzzle. Stories like this remind me of the tales of the dangers of shooting twist or Damascus barrels--how they will blow up.

If any of you gent would like to see my story that is in my book, I will reproduce it and place it here if I can figure out how to do it.

Cal Pappas