IME, the surprise is worth .25s. But, working on the known reload seems to have made it easier to feel the different recoil impulse to detect the 'surprise' lock-back more quickly. Time will tell, I will be dedicating more range sessions to reloads over the next month or so.
Yes. I wasn't activating my "I have to reload" process fast enough. I am trying to doing it based on the differing recoil rather than the visual indications.
I feel like this hitch in my reload was developed from slow fire, precise, controlled range time ...