I grill for about 3 minutes a side at high heat, then place on an upper shelf in a cooler part of the grill (indirect heat below 300F) to let the steak rest and slowly warm up to 130F (medium rare). Experience, or a quality instant read thermometer, is your friend.
Re: Copperheads smell like cucumbers. probably from some farmer in the 1800's who stumbled on a snake in his garden... I din knode itwas, martha- it blended right in.. or there I was... just me and the snake... the only thing I had to defend myself was this cucumber...
General Snake Smell. Clean snakes have very little -- if any -- odor. Lacking hair, feathers or dander, and shedding their skin in a punctuated, periodic manner, snakes do not produce smelly detritus like mammals and birds do.