The-Reaver
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The mosin has been around a lot longer, but been seen in almost every battle field the AK has. My vote goes to the Mosin just based on age and ease of access.
I couldn't disagree with your more. The AK has never seen combat on the scale of WWI and WWII, 3/4 of the German army was on the Eastern front during WWII. The Eastern front in in WWII was ~1800 miles wide, the siege at Leningrad lasted 900 days. The Eastern front was the largest and bloodiest confrontation in human history with the loss of ~10.6 million Soviet soldiers, yet there were close to 7 million Soviet soldiers in uniform in 1945.While the Mosin has seen it's fair share of fighting remember the AK is still the hot ticket item for every violent bad guy group across the globe and has been for many many years now, if you start doing the body count on the numerous and endless wars all across the middle east, Korea, Vietnam, tribal wars in Africa, Chechnya, communist factions/drug cartels in south America, and absolutely countless skirmishes across the globe very often the AK being the standard rifle on both sides I think it is safe to say that the AK has seen more violence then any other firearm ever invented.
To look at it in another perspective there were 37 million MN rifle made, in contrast there were over 75 million AK47s made, supposedly the total made around the world (counting knockoffs) exceeds 100 million but still trying to verify that number, the Mosin and all bolt actions became very obsolete as a main battle rifle when the AK came about and has been a "leftover" military rifle since then. AK for the win absolutely no doubt about it.
No that is not combat, that is genocide, and he usually used starvation to kill rather then wasting bullets.Not to mention that the Mosin Nagant was standard issue for most of Stalin's reign, including his purges.
Not sure that's considered combat, though.
Granted the battle for Stalingrad (Leningrad/Saint Petersburg)