Souvenir G3SG1 | Safari Mesh (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

This wear keeps the same olive-and-sand mesh camouflage with only faint traces of use that are hard to spot in a match. The diamond net over the handguard still reads clearly, and the scope and magazine keep their painted surface. For most buyers it looks the same as the cleanest grade at a lower entry point.

Item type: sniper rifle. The weapon is available only on the Terrorist side. Consumer Grade is the lowest tier of the rarity scale: the most common skins, most often used in trade-up contracts.

Spray-Paint: paint sprayed over the metal; scratches and scuffs appear early but look natural.

The remaining qualities of this skin: Factory New, Field-Tested, Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred.

Appearance in Minimal Wear

The whole G3SG1 is coated in a khaki and olive base with a fine diamond-shaped net sprayed over it in a slightly lighter sand tone. The mesh is most visible on the long handguard, the receiver and the magazine, where large flat surfaces carry the pattern.

Minimal Wear adds only small specks of wear, mostly on the front edge of the handguard and the tips of raised parts. The receiver, magazine and stock still look clean. At normal viewing distance it is practically indistinguishable from Factory New.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The whole float range of Souvenir G3SG1 | Safari Mesh is 0.06–0.8; Minimal Wear takes the 0.07–0.15 segment (11% 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

The skin’s collection is The Mirage Collection with 15 skins in total.

It drops from:

• Atlanta 2017 Mirage Souvenir Package
• Berlin 2019 Mirage Souvenir Package
• Boston 2018 Mirage Souvenir Package
• Cologne 2016 Mirage Souvenir Package
• DreamHack 2013 Souvenir Package
• DreamHack 2014 Mirage Souvenir Package

And 9 more — souvenir packages and other sources.

What it costs in each quality

Among 6 skins of the G3SG1 in the Consumer Grade grade and this quality, this skin ranks 4th by price, counting from the dearest.

Souvenir version

This is the Souvenir version: such copies dropped to tournament viewers in souvenir packages; the team stickers and signatures on them cannot be removed or chosen. Souvenir items never carry StatTrak™. There is also the regular version without tournament stickers.

Stickers and crafts

Muted stickers in khaki, olive, brown or matte black blend into the mesh camouflage without breaking it. Placed on the receiver side or the flat handguard panel, a single dark or earth-toned sticker keeps the field look intact. Bright colours will stand out sharply against the sandy finish, which works only if contrast is the goal.

What to check before buying

• Factory New exists only in a narrow float band for this skin, so compare it with a low Minimal Wear copy before paying more.
• Within Field-Tested and Well-Worn, check the front of the handguard and the magazine bottom, where paint goes first.
• The mesh pattern is uniform, so pattern placement does not change the look in any meaningful way.
• There is no StatTrak version, but a Souvenir version exists, so check which one you are buying and whether its stickers suit you.

Who the Minimal Wear quality suits

• Players who want a clean-looking rifle without paying for the top grade.
• Sticker crafters who need an almost untouched base for muted stickers.
• Conclusion: the most balanced pick for a clean look.