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>>3840556
Depends. Higher gauge means a larger shell. Something like a 20 Gauge (popular for youth and beginners, while still having it's own merit) is pretty easy to shoot, the pellets having the same kind of ballistics as a comparable load in 12 Gauge, however, since the shell is smaller, there's less lead projectiles, and thus there's less mass pushing back, so a 20 Gauge shotgun can be plenty deadly while being easier to shoot. That said, a lot of 20 Gauge shotguns are made to be lighter since they can be smaller, and a lighter gun will just recoil more, so you'd want to look for the right gun.

However, there's the matter of self-loading, with an action using energy from a fired shell to cycle on it's own, that takes a lot of the recoil away, so if you wanted a shotgun that's still really good for fighting while being very easy to shoot, I would suggest a self-loading shotgun (something working on a Benelli style inertia system) in 20 Gauge

Although, with a Benelli, like the M4, even 12 Gauge is pretty nice, it can even cycle low pressure target loads and birdshot reliably, which not all kinds of semi-automatic shotguns can readily do (though this isn't really important from the perspective of a fighting shotgun). A nice feature that the M4 has it that beyond fully loading the magazine tube and having a shell in the chamber, you can fit an extra shell on the lifter inside the receiver and this will work just fine.
The downside is that they're on the expensive side.