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Title: Yarak bow??
Post by: centaur on November 06, 2012, 11:07:00 AM
Anybody ever heard of a Yarak bow?  Any comments would be appreciated.
Title: Re: Yarak bow??
Post by: Mark Baker on November 06, 2012, 11:22:00 AM
Yarak bows were built by Tom Martini in Sidney, MT....good bows and a great guy, and longtime trad bowhunter.  Wish I had one....
Title: Re: Yarak bow??
Post by: centaur on November 06, 2012, 11:25:00 AM
Mark, are these Hill style?
Title: Re: Yarak bow??
Post by: Mark Baker on November 06, 2012, 11:33:00 AM
Tom is good friends with Dick Robertson, and I think he learned to build them in the same style of Dick's longbows...kind of a milder deflex/reflex.   When strung, they look like a Hill or "D" bow style.   At least the ones I remember.   I'm pretty sure Tom doesn't make them anymore...and he never really went hog wild building them, but he did a great job doing the ones he did.
Title: Re: Yarak bow??
Post by: centaur on November 06, 2012, 11:36:00 AM
Thanks, now I have some thinking to do...Hmmm.
Title: Re: Yarak bow??
Post by: Follower on November 06, 2012, 08:28:00 PM
Yep - second what Mark has said.  Tom is a good friend and built some fine bows.
Title: Re: Yarak bow??
Post by: Tim Finley on November 06, 2012, 09:41:00 PM
I have a Yarak Tom made for me good bow and good guy . They were pretty much a copy of Dick Robertsons bows and I think Tom made some bows for Dick. Real quality .
Title: Re: Yarak bow??
Post by: mark stella on November 07, 2012, 02:07:00 PM
There is one over on RMSGEAR if not mistaking.
Title: Re: Yarak bow??
Post by: mark stella on November 07, 2012, 02:10:00 PM
There is one over on RMSGEAR if not mistaking.
Title: Re: Yarak bow??
Post by: centaur on November 07, 2012, 02:38:00 PM
QuoteOriginally posted by mark stella:
There is one over on RMSGEAR if not mistaking.
Not any more.   :bigsmyl:
Title: Re: Yarak bow??
Post by: Brianlocal3 on November 07, 2012, 04:30:00 PM
Ha ha Centaur!! That's good right there