The web site is still active.

Has someone purchased the company, have they gone back into business, is their product still available?

Looks like their hasn't been an update since mid '06. I'd say it's just wishful thinking. Never had a chance to try them myself, and I suppose I'm better off for it. I hear they were about perfect. Last thing I need.

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I'd say it's just wishful thinking.

Maybe not.

Will, send me a PM if you know something I dont.



They are too good for some other manufacturer not to put their name on them!



Andy

I agree...........I prefer Northfork bullets over all others and there are some pretty good bullets out there.

The North Fork Bullets were/are terrific. They were made by a nice fella too. I truely do hope he gets the rights to someone smart enough to start making them again.
Thanks, Doug

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Originally posted by Will:

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I'd say it's just wishful thinking.

Maybe not.

Barrel tease!

Still have a bunch of .416s. Hoarding them, though

I have a small to large supply of Northforks depending on caliber etc. I love the cup points and pine dearly for their reproduction to come about from some antrepanuer..I have a few FN solids and cup points in 9.3, 404, 416 and 375 and some softs in various calibers, just enough to get me by until I can't hunt anymore perhaps.

Mike made a great bullet, especially in .423 for the 404jeffery. I laid in a decent supply of 380gr & 340gr softs. It should last me quite awhile for hunting. Hopefully Hornady produces a competative priced bullet to teh Woodleigh so I'll have serious practice rounds. I get by using 300gr 44mags for plinkers though, very cheap, pretty darn accurate.

It's always made me wonder if the demise of Northfork was a legal mess and nothing to do with sales.....they were so much like the TBBC that I've wondered the real reason.....

It amases me that someone like Sierra hasn't grabbed them up as they have no premium line and there was one for the grabbing.....unless of course there was entanglements!

There was no legal mess. (And I would disagree that the North Fork was so similar to the TBBC'c and certainly the solids were entirely different - but that discussion is for another day and thread.) The primary issue was that Mike's copper supplier was bought by a larger company which instituted minimum order sizes. The larg minimum order size for the copper rod - one size rod for each calibre - meant that the money he would have tied up in copper rod inventory would have been huge. The minimum order size for each rod size for each calibre would have represented more than a year or two worth of copper inventory for all but the most popular and used calibres.

Also, it didn't help that Mike's die maker screwed up an important set of revised dies which caused a lot of trouble for Mike. These were the dies designed to make Mike's soft point bullets more streamlined.

In the end, Mike was wondering why he was working his tail off for not a whole lot of $'s but for a whole lot of trouble.

JPK

Vapodog,

The Trophy Bonded was a copy of an experimental Bitterroot, which was in turn an authorized version of PO Ackleys original solid base bullet.

I dont believe a bonded solid base could be patented since it is so un-original!

What made Mikes bullets so special was his craftsmanship. He chose the most appropriate alloys and tested them to make sure they performed at expected velocites.

Here is a picture of a 500 grain .458 Trophy Bonded at just 2,400 fps.



And here is a 450 grain and 400 grain North Fork at 2,550 and 2,750 fps!


No comparison who makes the better bullet!

Andy

I agree, Mike was a big part of what made NF great. I hope some day the bullets return however I will miss calling them up before a safari and talking. I think he could have doubled his prices and still sold the same amount of bullets.

With the price of copper these days it will be more like 3X.

Will, it is not that bad. Here is the current USA pricing on GSC FNs