Interesting, but jeeze! I'd have to be really desperate. OTOH, I don't dare shoot up what I have, so maybe I should rethink that...
Well,... yeah,... THAT.
At what point are we "desperate?" Primer prices are still insane, even if they're down a slight bit - I still don't see them in stock. I'm not currently hurting because I shoot mostly single-shot rifles and five-shot revolvers and I don't get to shoot that often, BUT I have a fair bit of my life and my earnings invested in stuff I won't be able to afford to use if I have to pay what they're asking. $30/k primers? Probably never happen again, and I've only paid that ONCE and the guy screwed me, because there was only 800 in the brick. So much for being nice.
When the $10/k percussion caps dried up at Dixie Gun Works, I bought the "Tap-'O-Cap" and started making them. It was WAY more trouble, and WAY less reliability than sucking it up and paying $20/k for percussion caps. I do have the option of converting to flint-lock, which I am seriously considering.
I don't have those options with the fixed cartridge guns, so I'm wondering if I shouldn't try this. If I DO have to resort to it, I'll have had some practice and would have time to lay in supplies. If I DON'T have to resort to it, I'll have learned something for certain, of which I only have a preconceived notion at this time.