Bandolier

Marston's bandolier is fully stocked with rifle ammunition.

The Bandolier is a piece of clothing that also functions as practical equipment in Red Dead Redemption. The bandolier is a type of belt designed to hold ammunition.

Once bought, it appears on Marston's outfit.

The bandolier, along with the revolver holster's cartridge belt, changes in appearance with the amount of cartridges left on the bandolier. The bandolier seems to start changing when less than 50 rounds are left and around 20-30 for the revolver holster's cartridge belt. When the player is out of ammo, both the bandolier and the belt do not contain any cartridges.

The bandolier does not appear on Marston's outfit if you are wearing the Deadly Assassin Outfit, The Elegant Suit, or The Gentleman's Attire.

Background

Traditionally, the bandolier is worn over the chest and is made from canvas or leather. In the American West, the wearing of a fully-stocked bandolier communicated the wearer's participation in a violent profession, but that they were also wealthy enough to maintain a full stock of expensive ammunition.

In-game, Marston can buy a bandolier from any gunsmith or (depends which) General Store clerk for around $125. Doing so allows Marston to carry twice as much rifle and repeater ammo. Once the bandolier has been purchased, it cannot be resold to the merchant or removed from the player's inventory. While earlier game material showed Marston wearing two bandoliers, this was dropped in favor of just one.

In Undead Nightmare, John equips the bandolier after the mission Love in the Time of Plague, appearing to have already bought it during the events preceding Undead Nightmare.

Trivia

• Despite that fact that Marston carries both repeater and rifle ammo, the bandolier only shows rifle rounds.
• It is not usable in Multiplayer, although many characters have them.
• This does not increase Ammo capability for Explosive Rounds.

Bugs

• The bandolier is prone to a glitch where it will randomly cease to function. This error will cause you to be unable to pick up ammunition until you have less than 100 rounds. This glitch seems to be linked to changing outfits. Saving and reloading the game after having changed your appearance will fix this glitch.
• Even when you have the maximum amount of rounds for all of your weapons and weapon types, the bandolier is never completely filled, it always has a few bullets missing.
• Another glitch with the bandolier is that when you sit down to play a game like Poker, Liar's Dice or Blackjack, a lot of the rounds in the bandolier will disappear and the bandolier will seem empty. Even after getting up, the bandolier will remain empty. An easy way to fix this though is that after you are done with the activity, to go to a safehouse or a camp, save the game and just load the game again from where you last saved it and your bandolier should be full again, or switch your long-arm weapon from a rifle to a repeater and it will refill.