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Loose Ends: They shoot rattlesnakes

RBC | “Are you still shooting rattlesnakes?” a high school classmate asked me after reconnecting on social media. Having moved to the western slope of Colorado so many years earlier, I’d forgotten my long letters to friends and family regaling them with all of my “Back East meets Out West” stories. 

That first year I was included in an afternoon of shooting. The way one of the party described it, we were going to pop…