Hello to everyone. I have been a visitor here for a while. This is my first post. I own several S&W revolvers, but until now no semi's. I picked up a model 659 Sunday afternoon. Serial number TAAXXXX. This will be a project gun for this winter. It is already headed back to S&W on a recall I found that relates to a fix to the decocker. S&W mailed out a mailing label today. The slide has a few gouge marks around the slide stop pin, that the previous owner put on the slide. I tried to remove the slide stop pin, and have been unsuccessful so far. This one seems to be stuck. Does anyone know if there is an easy way to remove this thing? I am going to have to do some sanding on the stainless slide to get the gouge marks out. I have never done this before, and could use some guidance should anyone know how to remove gouge marks, and would share their knowledge with me. If anyone else has much expereience with the model 659 I would love to hear from them.