Or, best idea yet, get your butt down to Front Sight, take their 4 day tactical shotgun course, and learn to properly operate a shotgun. You probably won't win any international skeet matches with the form they teach, but recoil becomes a non-issue when you run a shotty properly. A light pump gun will kick, but properly mounted, it leaves no bruises nor soreness. Numbness down the arm like an incipient cardiac arrest for a week or so, after 400 rounds delivered tactically, but no pain nor bruising.
Oh, and the "managed recoil" "Law Enforcement" loads et al are not for the "oh so less macho", they are for folks who can put their loads where it matters, and have no desire to waste miliseconds dealing with recoil generated by excess velocity. A bucket full of buckshot on soft tissue will get it done without the extra couple of hundred fps, and the extra couple of hundred fps won't un-miss a miss, nor penetrate hard cover.
Typically the extra velocity will open your pattern, reducing the range at which you can deliver precision work, and reducing the range at which you will get enough buck onto a target to have ballistic effectiveness. You will only know what this range is by patterning multiple shots of multiple different loads.
Critical to managing a shotgun is the mount. Mount it high enough that you are not bringing your head to the gun, but the gun to your face. Properly mounted, at least one third of the butt should show above your trap, so the toe of the butt is dug into that soft, fleshy pocket. Hard to explain. Best to get a Front Sight rangemaster to teach you.
