I seldom run cast rifle bullets much past 1900 FPS. Once in a great while, I 'go a little wide' and prospect in those mountains. But it is an infrequent venture.
One such venture involved my VERY WELL-DIMENSIONED 30-06, a 1950s commersh Husqy Mauser 98 with .3085" throat and .300" x .308" bore x grooves. Likely the best 30-06 I have ever owned, and BOY HOWDY can it SHOOT with bullets it likes. And it likes the Lee 200 grain bore rider--A LOT.
I mention what follows in the context of the 'minimal lube' texts above. Lee bullets have shallow lube grooves compared to many makers' cavity characteristics. I size the Lee 200 at .309" (a couple tenths large in my H&I die) and lube with LSS Carnauba Red. I fill all of the lube grooves, in the belief (without a shred of evidence) that a filled lube groove resists deformation/collapse better than an empty one. I haven't seen evidence of lube surging with the Lee bullets so far. There is a nice lube star at the muzzle, and the downrange-box chronograph gets almost zero lube sling-off 15 yards downrange.
Running the Lee bullets in the 1500-1600 FPS ballpark gave docile recoil and decent accuracy. (Alliant 2400 powder). 50 yard chrysanthemums, 100 yard five-shotters in the 1-1/4" to 1-1/2" ballpark. Grouping remained pretty constant at the 1750-1800 FPS level, with a bit more recoil. (IMR 4064 powder). A pretty good day of shooting, all told--120 rounds downrange, and not a hint of leading in the bore at end-of-day bore cleaning.
Time to go a little wide. I am a fan of Bartlett's milsurp powders, and have done a number of weird things with WC-860 over the years. WC-860 is one of the "spec" powders for 50 BMG service ammo, and at one time could be had for very low prices. 55.0 grains of WC-860 in my Ruger 77R in 6.5 x 55 (100%-density load) gave 1896-level ballistics to 140 grain jacketed bullets--about 2450 FPS, and STELLAR accuracy. That rifle dotes upon 140 grain bullets. All of them, any maker. Even Lyman #266469.
120 30-06 empties got tumbled and processed, and I set 50 aside (all W-W, 2x-fired). F/L-sized, they didn't "need" a trim but I evened them all up at 2.485" just for drill. My ancient Lyman M-die 30 caliber spud is about .307" plus a few tenths, and they saw that tool enroute to priming with Federal #215 LRM primers. WC-860 can be hard to awaken.
60.0 grains of WC-860 was poured into each, and the Lee 200s got seated to same OAL as the prior loads, just kissing the throat's leade origin.
The next day I drove the 12 miles to the range site. Oh, how I miss living in Ridgecrest......I set up the bench kit and chronograph, and fired 10 fouling shots through the cleaned bore, just for grins at the 300 yard dinger plates. OK! A hit, and with that came a pretty good recoil push and the loud, throaty, boomy report I have come to love from WC-860 powder in all its calibers. IIRC, I got 7 hits out of 10 fouling shots with this load at 300 yards. The indicia was hopeful, and the benchrest portion promised to be a fun ride.
Eight five-shot groups at 100, and again the grouping ran 1-1/4" to 1-1/2 inches. Velocities ran 2045-2110 FPS, the chrono wasn't glumped up with slung lube, but the muzzle's lube star looked a bit gritty at day's end. No zombie kernels in the bore, but the bore was DIRTY. Accuracy didn't fall off, though. Maybe all of that C-Red acted like BP lube, and kept the fouling soft enough to blow out after every shot. (The 6.5 x 55/WC-860 loads DID lay down hard fouling, and accuracy fell off after 12-15 rounds very noticeably. 10-round cleaning intervals kept things polite.)
FWIW.