Wengerd Archery

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🗓️ 1 November 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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I was fascinated with archery ever since I was able to pull back the string on the small fiberglass bows my dad had bought for us kids to play with.When I got a little older I started building my own bows out of the serviceberry bushes that were plentifull around our house in NW Montana. null of them would last more then a few days of course because I was building them green and as soon as they would dry out they would stiffen up. Even so I got some kind of satisfaction out of it. When I was around 11yrs old my grandpa gave me an old Bear Grizzly, a bow he had bought for my dad and uncle to use when they were teenagers. I shot that for awhile then bought an older Martin compound to use for my first year bowhunting. I hunted that season but never got a shot with a bow. The recurve bug had started to bite when a good friend gave me a copy of Traditional Bowhunter Magazine. I read it cover to cover multiple times. One day I was showing my dad a picture of someone building a bow. He looked at it and said "that looks like something you would do". After talking about it some more and a bit of planning, the materials were ordered. Even though I was only 12yrs old my dad had let me work in his wood working shop on a number of projects ranging from nightstands to turkey calls. My first bow however was definitely a notch harder than what I was used to. Even so I was able to finish it and believe it or not it still shoots even though it's the ugliest bow I have ever seen. When I started building bows I had no intention of hunting with them I just wanted to build and shoot recurves for fun but hunt with a compound. It didn't take long to change my mind. The idea of killing a deer or elk with a bow I had built was just too good to pass up. So that year I decided to hunt with my recurve. It took a few years but I finally started having success, and as time went on the more success I was having. Getting into bow building full time was something I had wanted to do ever since I was 12 but I guess I never quite had the guts to make the jump till now. Having a job I enjoyed didn't help either. I was working in the mountains all summer and building/carving furniture and doors in the winter. But now my family and I are moving back to NW Montana where I grew up and I Figured it's now or never. M. Trent Wengerd Myron Trent WengerdWengerd [email protected](406) 529-0888168 ELK CREEK RDHERON, MT 59844

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0:00.0	Good morning everyone. Welcome to Cafferoo Cast. I'm still writing solo. Frank is still
0:07.4	hunting Mule deer and Idaho, but we've got a super cool guest on today. Boer, one guy I've
0:17.0	followed for a long time, especially getting into traditional archery. Trent Wingard with
0:21.8	Wingard archery. Did I pronounce it right? I always say Wingard. Is that correct?
0:25.4	Yeah, no, that's good. Well, thanks for coming on. Yeah, yeah. You've gotten pretty
0:36.7	big, pretty quick with the whole the bow building thing. Yeah, almost to a level where you can't
0:42.0	keep up with now. Yeah, I've been really lucky that way. I just guess the right people
0:49.0	really helped out in this industry. You know, uh, Turner and Davis and Eddie Ponds and
0:54.8	a couple different guys really really helped me out a lot and started. Yeah, it took off
1:00.3	faster than I was thinking it would. So yeah, really thankful for that for sure. Yeah,
1:05.5	well, how long have you been building both? Since 2002, kind of a hobby thing. Just got
1:12.7	into it for, you know, just, you know, build both for me and, you know, dad wanted one
1:18.1	and I'll do brother wanted one and my cousin's wanted one and, you know, just kind of went
1:23.1	from there. And yeah, I build a few every year. Um, I started O2 and then I started kind
1:32.6	of making my own, you know, you know, you know, coming up with my own style of the stuff,
1:39.0	you know, just like two or three years later, which were horrible at first. But yeah,
1:44.0	that's how you learn and kind of kept it, just kind of kept tweaking things. And finally,
1:51.8	uh, uh, being my wife had moved down to Colorado for seven years. Um, and we were like, you
2:00.8	know, we're going to move back to Montana so that you know, job change anyway, we're going
2:05.1	to, uh, you know, we're going to jump into this row building thing full time, uh, you
2:11.6	know, right when we move, which is about a year and a half ago. And, uh, so that's, that's
2:16.8	what I made the leap full time. But, but yeah, gotcha. So have you, um, like your, just, I
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