Thinking of the two deer I was able to whack in Oregon this last year, the little bedded buck saw me and started to get up just as I shot him. I'm glad I didn't have to chamber for him. The doe was trotting, and was a mature old doe that I had to do a triple-take on to make sure it wasn't a buck. She had that old-deer chest protrusion and everything; big deer.
Anyway either of them would have been unneccesarily more difficult if I'd had to chamber. The little buck might have turned into a running shot. The doe, I would not have been able to calmly triple-check the lack of horns, then shoot her in the last available shooting lane, if I'd been cranking a round into the chamber...
That's just me. This isn't worth fighting about (again... and again... and again...) It's just one of those things I guess.
