After a long dry season of seeing absolutely no deer after Kristen took 2 deer in two days, I knew this would be the last morning (January 4th) I could hunt. Like every other time I saw nothing. As I was driving to the gate, I looked across the road into a wheat field and at the far end saw several deer. I do not have permission across the road, but since it was a weekday morning, I thought I would call the ranch foreman on his cell and ask (worst he could say was, "No"). As luck would have it not only did I get a hold of the foreman, but the owner was with him. He said "Yes" and then I had to plan on how to get to them without very much cover. To make a long story short I crawled for over 150 yards. When I made it to a pile of wood I had cover, but no way to get a good rest. I was trying to find a rest when the deer decided they wanted to move to a different location. My heart rate was up from a hurried crawling (all fours and stomach). My season was walking away from me. All three does were moving from my left to right and not stopping often. As I kept struggling to get a good rest at a distance of a 150 yards (lasered it later) the last doe came into the opening. I was unsteady, but I though I was on enough to make a lethal shot. Simply said, I missed.
The does alerted, still didn't have a clue where I was moved into another field of brome and stopped trying to decide which way to go.
From this angle I was able to move and get a solid rest. I had earlier turned my Burris 3-12 LER down to 8x expecting a closer shot. The doe was facing me slightly quartering. I put the crosshair just left of center so I could get the vitals. Even through the recoil I could tell she was hit, not to mention my rest was secure this time. She took off with the other two does into some trees a short distance away. I was certain I had a dead deer, but proof is in the seeing. Sure enough I got my doe and my Thor 6.5-57R (rimmed) drew blood for the very first time.
I like this SP a lot.

Better pic of the Thor and some of the gear I had with me.

Ernie: What bullet and load that were you shooting? How was the performance? Obviously, it did the job just fine...Rusty.

H-4350 powder, Fed. Match primers, and the 142 SMK. This is the third deer to go down with a SMK this year between my daughter and myself. 6.5-284 w/142 SMK, 6mm-284 115 DTAC (made by Sierra-in essence a SMK), and the 6.5x57R Thor.
On all three animals performance was good.
FWIW I will be using the 130 Swift Scirocco with the Thor for hunting next. I don't suggest using the lighter weight SMK's for busting shoulders, but go for lung shots.
I can't remember off-hand the grains of powder or the MV at the time (at my office).

Ernie: Thanks for the prompt responce. The SMKs are an interesting choice and should work well at handgun velocities. Please keep us posted on your up coming Scirroco experiences. You are performing valuable services in keeping us informed of your experiences. Thanks, Rusty.

Your Welcome.
As far as the SMK's go, that choice was made based upon a number of others experiences over a # of years. SMK's are not specifically designed for hunting per se, but they do work good under specific parameters.