I've been to five gun shows the past year and a half and they progressively became less and less interesting. At first, it was great to find .22 LR for any price, now that the panic and shortages are mostly over, I can get it online or more locally.
With the popularity of internet shopping, gun shows are becoming a relic of the past. They use to be THE place to get great deals on anything, but now the prices are not better than what you can find locally or online.
I had been going to them to find things that were tough to find around town, but even after a 1-2 hour drive, they didn't have much of anything I was looking for. CCI Velocitors? Aguila SSS? Nowhere to be found. WWB JHP ammo? Nope, if you wanted JHP, you got Federal Hydra Shok and Hornady Zmax.
Other ammunition was just FMJ American Eagle, WWB, PPU, occasional Blazer, and when there was .22, it was usually a few boxes of CCI mini mags and Remington subsonic. The only bricks available were Armscor for $75, which I bought because at that time the .22 shortage had no end in sight.
Magazines? Some okay deals here and there, but you can wait for Midway to have a sale and coupons for $10 off a $100 order.
There were a lot of guns, mostly handguns. I think that is one of the benefits of gun shows is it lets people handle a selection of handguns they've been interested in, but wanted to grip and feel to determine if it was a good fit for them. Not much when it came to used guns and if it was a hard to find gun that you were looking for, you weren't gonna find it. Last year I looked all over for Kel Tec Sub 2k's, none at any shows. Earlier this year I was looking for NAA cap and ball revolvers, none anywhere.
It's just part and parcel of the modern day retail apocalypse. While a gun show may not be a retail store, it's a place you go to in person so it's the same thing in my book. You cannot go to any store in person and find what you're looking for and if by some miracle you do, it's cheaper online. It's come to the point now where I don't even bother going to a store to find something I want because they flat out never have it. Case and point: Went to my lgs earlier this week for .45 Colt cowboy loads, they had 3 boxes of jacketed ammo and I didn't even bother to look at the price. Went home, got online, ordered the ammo I wanted probably for less than was being sold at the lgs and got free shipping.
So, I would say if you go to a gun show looking to score a deal or find something that's kind of rare, don't bother. If you want to go with some shooting buddies and look things over and socialize with people, it's pretty good place to do that, but it's nothing you can't already get on a forum like this.
I'm pretty much done with gun shows. The internet killed them.