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A firearms tactics instructor showed me something like that with my Mossberg one day at the range. With the pump action open; weapon laying on it's left side on the bench; with his left hand he dropped a shell into the action as his right hand gripped the pistol grip (yeah, my shotgun has one of those bad old aftermarket pistol grips and adjustable stocks, makes it an "assault" shotgun ;-) ); as the gun came up off the bench he slid his left hand forward onto the pump; as it came up to his shoulder the pump was fully forward, shell in the chamber; rotated the weapon vertical as he brought it to his shoulder and slid his left hand around to a more conventional grip on the pump; and fired; hitting his target at 10 yds.

Now, he is obviously long practiced at this, and he did it in one fast, smooth motion. It was wild just how fast he could go from a "safe" open weapon on the bench to pellets on target. I actually had him repeat it a couple of times so I could see what he did - I missed it the first time 'cause he didn't tell me what he was going to do. When you're not ready for it, it's over before you know it. I've practiced it some at the range, I'm about 1/4 his speed. But then, I have a non-firearms related job, I don't spend every day at the range...