How To – Make Shotgun Shell Christmas Lights
August 17, 2005 | In: Artwork, How-To's, Sports Recreation
You know you’re a redneck when…
Garth Johnson of the Extreme Craft blog managed to get his hands on a 44 page booklet of wildlife craft projects put out by Linda McMurry, who does workshops for Texas Parks and Wildlife. This booklet just happens to have a how to on making yourself your own set of Shotgun Shell Christmas Lights. From the how to…
We’ve all seen these in the various sporting good catalogs and specialty stores. And they’re always at a very high dollar price, so most people just get one or two strings as a gift or novelty to put up in the office. Now, with a little cooperation from your favorite duck, goose, pheasant and/or turkey hunter, you can have enough for the entire house.
Well, yee-haw and where’s my banjo!?! Come on, you know your mother-in-law will be really impressed with a set of these hanging off the front porch.
[via Makezine Blog]
2 Responses to How To – Make Shotgun Shell Christmas Lights
Mr. Shotgun Shells
December 23rd, 2005 at 10:54 am
I recently designed a web site for a shotgun shells manufacturer… I’ll have to let him know about this in case he has some extra empty shells.
Cool idea.
A Road Less Travelled » Quick Christmas Gifts? (Raquel)
November 25th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
[...] ornaments. I mean, surely this has been done before! Sadly, it seems that beyond strings of shotgun shell Christmas lights, the only shotgun shell Christmas ornaments are these. Don’t you think mine are much [...]