Tackling a case of lacking nerves

I still have the nerve it takes to hunt rattlesnakes, I just can't feel my way into it

The author handles a diamondback rattlesnake along a rocky ledge in eastern Oklahoma. Photo by Tim Fitzer

I’m not chasing rattlesnakes this spring. It’s not that I’ve lost the nerve to do it, my nerves have just let me down in the ability to do it.

It has to do with my connection to the Earth—and by that, I mean the dirt and rocks.

Time was, that I had a f…