I had sort of the same experience with my wife. I bought a stainless ruger old army for myself for a followup shot during ML season for christmas this year and I showed it to her and she acted like she did not even care. What's up with that?
I went to the last gun show in Nashville and I was disappointed. If you weren't interested in AR's or pistols, there was no reason to go. There were only a couple of AK's and SKS's and there were no old military bolt action rifles. Not the same gun show that I used to have to go to whenever it came to town.