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>>2178660
Probably because everyone does it one shell at a time.

In Doom 3, you reloaded two shells at a time, one action, two shells. If you implemented this to a shotgun with a 5 round magazine tube, that's three loading motions and a pump, it can be made relatively quick, especially good is if the reloading process can be aborted, because that makes everything better, say you're in a pinch, and your gun is empty, but you only need one shell, no sense in waiting for the full reload.

I remember some old version of Brutal Doom tried to balance this out by giving the shotgun an 11 round magazine tube, and made the loading action much faster, and it looked goofy as shit with the player loading each and every single shell at Sanic speed. In my opinion, people should strive to emulate the Doom 3 style reload instead, and maybe not have such excessively long magazines for these guns.

Of course, there exist pump-action shotguns with detachable box magazines (they're fairly popular in Canada).