★ M9 Bayonet | Boreal Forest (Factory New)

Skin overview

★ M9 Bayonet | Boreal Forest is a hydrographic forest camouflage in olive, khaki, light green and teal blotches laid over the whole knife. In Factory New the camo is complete from tip to pommel, with crisp edges between the colour patches and no bare steel showing. It suits a buyer who wants a quiet, military-looking knife in its cleanest state.

Item type: knife. Covert is the top weapon rarity: usually the most prominent items of a collection or case.

Hydrographic: the pattern is applied as a film over the metal; wear rubs it down to the base, starting with raised parts.

How the skin looks in Factory New

The blade is covered with a hydrographic forest camouflage of olive, khaki, light green and teal blotches, running from the tip across the fuller hole and up to the serrated spine. A darker grey band follows the cutting edge, framing the camo along the lower line of the blade. The crossguard and the muzzle ring are painted in the same green tones, while the segmented grip carries a muted grey-khaki camo with darker patches and a lighter pommel. On worn copies the paint first leaves the tip, the cutting edge and the spine teeth, then the ring, the raised ridges of the grip and the pommel.

The camouflage is intact on the blade, guard and grip, with no bare steel on the tip or the spine teeth. Because the lowest possible float for this skin is above zero, Factory New copies sit in a narrow band at the bottom of the range and all look very similar. In game the colours are even and the edges of the patches are sharp. Every part, including the ring and pommel, looks clean.

Factory New wear: float 0.06–0.07

The whole float range of ★ M9 Bayonet | Boreal Forest is 0.06–0.8; Factory New takes the 0.06–0.07 segment (1% of the scale). The lower the float within the range, the cleaner the surface looks and the higher a copy is usually priced.

Origin of the skin

It drops as a rare special item from:

• CS:GO Weapon Case (on sale since Sep 20, 2013)
• CS:GO Weapon Case 2 (on sale since Sep 20, 2013)
• CS:GO Weapon Case 3 (on sale since Sep 20, 2013)
• Operation Bravo Case (on sale since Sep 20, 2013)
• Winter Offensive Weapon Case (on sale since Dec 18, 2013)
• eSports 2013 Case (on sale since Jul 9, 2014)

And 5 more — souvenir packages and other sources.

What it costs in each quality

Compared with the Factory New quality, the others go like this:

• Minimal Wear — 3× cheaper
• Field-Tested — 3.3× cheaper
• Well-Worn — 3.2× cheaper
• Battle-Scarred — 3.2× cheaper

Based on the cheapest SkinOut.gg listing of each quality, otherwise on the market reference.

Among 23 skins of the M9 Bayonet in the Covert grade and this quality, this skin ranks 9th by price, counting from the dearest.

StatTrak™ version

This skin has a the StatTrak™ version with a kill counter. Right now it is 1.9× cheaper than the regular one.

What to check before buying

• Look at the float within the wear range, since copies near the cleaner end of a grade show visibly less steel on the tip and edge.
• Inspect the tip, the cutting edge and the spine teeth first, because that is where this hydrographic finish loses paint before anything else.
• Check the muzzle ring and the grip ridges on worn copies, as chips there are visible in the inspect animation.
• Note whether the knife is StatTrak™ and whether it carries a name tag, as both change the item you are buying.

Who the Factory New quality suits

• Collectors who want the camo complete on every part of the knife.
• Players who prefer a clean, understated knife over a bright one.
• The pick for those who want this finish without compromise.