thanks for the ad, if I go with this calculation https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1955?amount=1 a brevex action in 1955 had cost 1380 $ bei today's buying power. such calculations are allways to be taken with one or two grains of salt but its a fact the action allone had then some value. this in a time when americans could buy surplus military mauser rifles with a perfect standard action for maybe 10 $.
so I would say the guy who order your long range rifle then was not some kind of hobo

its a memory to americas golden age when everything was going up and the future looks fine.