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Try a Thompson Center Super Fourteen .30-30 for varminting. Speer's 110 grain Spire Point is good for 2400 to 2500 feet per second over 32.0 to 34.0 grains of Reloader 7. If not a 180-grain bullet, it's certainly a starting place for loads in that direction.

If you'd care to put your money where your mouth is, I think I could do a little better than that in a full-length bolt action, though certainly not with the usual round or flat-nosed ammo meant for use in lever guns. But the Savage 340 boltgun in .30-30 , among others, is very likely up to the task- I believe there was a George Nonte article on that very subject in Shooting Times back around Summer of 1975, though whether 2850 with a 180 was managed or not I don't immediately recall- and that was in the day of the .30-30 Improved too, so that may have been the subject of his experiments. But I'd hardly be surprised to see it done, though not from a levergun....