So as per my post above, I hit the Boise gun show again today. Whole different ball game. It took me almost 30 minutes just to get in the door, as the arena was limiting things to 300 people at a time.
Guns were still overpriced. Ruger 556s were $900. I looked at Ruger Wranglers again, and several guys had them for between $220-$230. As mentioned above, they are $199 at the big box stores. Maybe these guys think they can get more for the convenience of getting the gun right now, versus waiting ten days for the store to get one shipped. An exception I think was an FN Scar 16S that was $2600, which seemed a couple hundred under the going rate.
Ammo was pretty much all right around a buck a round. Some of the cheapest I saw was unknown I think metallic 5.56 at ~65 cents/round. Lots of reloading components (sans primers) but mostly for hunting cartridges, and also far from cheap. I saw some bagged .45 FMJ at $75/500, which was one of the better prices. One of the interesting things was an old lady selling tons of reloading dies. They were all used, but included multiples of popular calibers. All going for $15-$25/set.
I carried my Walther PPQ .40 with a for sale sign. $475 for the gun and four mags, or $525 if they wanted 300 rounds of American Eagle factory ammo to go with it ($120 at the normal times store price of ~40 cents/round). Not a single bite. What was infuriating was that a local pawnshop had a table set up, and they were selling a used one for $540, and I didn't see extra mags. And another guy had American Eagle .40 ammo that he was selling $90/100. Guess I wasn't approachable.
Anyway, done with trying to sell a gun at this crappy gun show. I'm either going to do local Armslist, or else my gun shop said they could get me $450 store credit right now, and I'll use that for another can or something.
A big surprise was that one of the tables with these old timey collectors (you know the type), had a Colt Series 70 .45ACP satin nickel, asking price $2500. My eyes bugged out, because sitting in my safe is the exact same thing except in Commander size, that I bought from a buddy that needed money back in the 90s for $300. 'm going to talk to the guy who sold some of my milsurps for me, to see what he thinks. He hits me for 20%, but likely has better channels for a good auction price than I could ever get.
Anyways, gun show suck.