Loading a Side X Side
I don't care how fast you can load a sxs. If you want to reload one you have to break the action open.
So if you empty one barrel, your choice is to break it open or trust that you can finish the job with that second shot. If the BG sees that you have a SxS, he also knows you only have one shot.
But with a pump or a semi, you not only have a magazine that commonly holds 3 to 7 rounds in addition to the one that may be in the chamber, you can top the magazine off while keeping the weapon ready to fire. Unless you just unloaded the magazine, the BG is unlikely to know that you have kept the gun topped off between shots.
I have to call BS pm a few other claims. It simply isn't true that the first shot is the only one that counts if you do your part without flaw. What if there is more than one BG?
Nor do you only have a single shot with a pump if one arm is decommissioned. It slows you down, but you can hold the gun and rack it with one arm.
How can anyone say in one breath that they did as good as most of their friends, but in the next breath that none did any better than themselves? that you only did as good as most means you did not do as well as some.