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Oneounceload is right about the importance of stock fit. At 6-3 and 140, you are not the "average" body size the Wingmaster's stock was designed to accommodate. I'm guessing you'll be happier with a little more stock length. You could kill two birds with one stone and get a thicker recoil pad. Go for the hat trick, and put a weighted recoil reducer in the stock's bolt hole while you have the pad off. Also, I assume your cheek is fairly thin, you might consider a sticky-back resilient pad for the comb.
One gets acclimated to recoil. If I'm shooting regularly, I'm not bothered by recoil; but, if I take a significant hiatus, then I need to re-acclimate. I do it by starting off with a few rounds with a 20-ga before I go to the 12-ga. You might consider using something lighter than the 1,200 fps 1-1/8-oz loads in the 12-ga. Have you tried any Xtra-Lite target loads? You can get 12-ga shells that are equivalent to 16 and 20-ga loads.
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