I agree with a lot of the posters. I own my Mosin-Nagant for its historical value, ungainly aesthetics and its significance to some people, such as Soviet conscripts who trusted every inch of their life to it. Just imagine: If you were in the middle of a hellish, dazing fight with the third Reich, and the only thing that you know that can get you out of it is your wits and the mechanical pipe with gunpowder in your hands. I'm sure a lot of praying occurred behind these guns.
And usually, a good way to tell if it saw action- if it looks like someone dug it out of the dirt after thirty years- then it probably did.
if it still looks like a rifle, it probably didn't.
Oh- and my girlfriend loves my P/U Mosin... i'm so lucky