Souvenir PP-Bizon | Bamboo Print (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

This Bizon carries a quiet ink-painting look: grey-olive bamboo branches over a light cream coat on the receiver and the drum magazine. Minimal Wear may show a few tiny marks on edges, but from a normal viewing distance it reads almost the same as a fresh copy. It suits buyers who want the clean look without demanding the top grade.

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

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

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

Appearance in Minimal Wear

The receiver, handguard and front sight block are covered in a pale cream base with dark grey-olive bamboo stalks and leaves applied in loose brush strokes. The large drum magazine carries the same pattern along its length, with a small red round stamp near its front end that adds a single accent of colour.

Small specks of wear may appear on the sharpest edges, such as the muzzle and the front rim of the drum. They are hard to notice from the usual first-person view. The pattern, the red stamp and most of the cream surface look as clean as on a fresh copy. The difference from Factory New is mainly in close inspection.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The float of Souvenir PP-Bizon | Bamboo Print ranges from 0 to 0.8; the Minimal Wear quality covers 0.07–0.15 — 10% of this skin’s scale. The lower the float within the range, the cleaner the surface looks and the higher a copy is usually priced.

Where the skin comes from: collection and case

The skin’s collection is The Rising Sun 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.

Price by quality

Compared with the Minimal Wear quality, the others go like this:

• Factory New — 3.2× dearer
• Battle-Scarred — 2× cheaper

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

Among 11 skins of the PP-Bizon 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

Black, grey and red stickers echo the ink-painted bamboo and the red stamp on the magazine. Paper-style or minimal designs placed along the receiver keep the calm look, while bright multicoloured stickers tend to clash with the cream base.

What to check before buying

• Look at the float position within the wear range, since the light base makes the difference between low and high floats easy to see.
• Check the front rim of the drum magazine and the muzzle area, which lose paint first.
• Look at the inspect view to see whether the red stamp on the magazine is still intact.
• Note any applied stickers or name tag, as they change how the light finish reads.

Who the Minimal Wear quality suits

• Buyers who want an almost clean look while saving compared to the top grade.
• Players who rarely inspect the weapon up close.
• A sensible balance between appearance and cost.