Practicing daily Cary soon became a successor to the art of slight of hand, winning the “Best in the Northwest Close-up Contest” in Portland, Oregon by doing a trick where someone picks a card, signs it and shuffles it into the deck. He then riffles the cards into the air above his head. Does a back flip, and pulls the card out of the air.
Cary started working restaurants and doing private parties making magic his profession. While attending a World Magic seminar in Las Vegas he met Michael Budd, a stage magician with a similar style of comedy & flair. Over the next couple of years they talked and put shows together and performed as they became better friends.
Cary soon moved to Olympia, WA to begin a partnership with Michael Budd to become the Bad Boys of Magic and now Budd and Durgin.