Souvenir M249 | Impact Drill (Factory New)

Skin overview

M249 | Impact Drill is a solid-colour finish in which separate parts of the machine gun are spray-painted blue and orange. A long bright orange barrel and a matching box magazine stand out against a dark blue-grey receiver. In Factory New the paint is even and unbroken, so the colour blocks have crisp edges.

Item type: machinegun. Consumer Grade is the lowest tier of the rarity scale: the most common skins, most often used in trade-up contracts.

Solid Color: a single colour without a pattern; wear dulls it evenly and rubs it off along the edges.

The remaining qualities of this skin: Field-Tested and Well-Worn.

How the skin looks in Factory New

The receiver and top cover are painted a dark blue-grey, with small orange details on the bolt area and side fittings. The long barrel, front sight and rear sight are bright orange, and the large box magazine below the receiver is the same orange.

The paint is complete on every part, with no chips on the barrel, sights or ammo box. The orange looks saturated and uniform, and the dark receiver has a clean, even surface. In game the weapon shows sharp colour boundaries. Everything from muzzle to stock looks freshly painted.

Factory New quality — float range 0–0.07

The whole float range of Souvenir M249 | Impact Drill is 0–1; Factory New takes the 0–0.07 segment (7% of the scale). Within the range, copies with a lower float look cleaner and are valued higher.

Origin of the skin

The skin’s collection is The Chop Shop Collection with 16 skins in total. It does not drop from a case: the collection has none — such skins come from operation drops, souvenir packages or the market.

What it costs in each quality

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

• Minimal Wear — 64× cheaper
• Battle-Scarred — 214× cheaper

The comparison uses our cheapest listing of each quality; where there is none, the market reference.

Among 7 skins of the M249 in the Consumer Grade grade and this quality, this skin is 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

Orange, yellow and dark blue stickers match the existing colour blocks, while black or holo stickers with blue tones fit well on the receiver. Placing stickers on the dark receiver keeps them readable against the bright barrel and box.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the wear grade, since the solid orange shows chips clearly on worn copies.
• Inspect the corners of the ammo box, as they are the most visible part in first-person view and wear early.
• Look at the muzzle and sight posts, which lose paint before the rest of the barrel.
• Pattern does not matter for this finish, so compare copies by float and applied stickers.

Who should buy Factory New

• Players who want the cleanest, most even orange on their M249.
• Sticker crafters who need an unchipped base for a colour-matched build.
• Choose it if crisp colour edges matter to you.