★ StatTrak™ Huntsman Knife

The ★ StatTrak™ Huntsman Knife is a Huntsman Knife with a kill counter and no skin. It carries no paint at all, and the lot description reads "Not Painted". Covert rank, with the ★ mark. There is no wear, no float and no pattern, so lots differ only by the counter.

What the ★ StatTrak™ Huntsman Knife looks like

The Huntsman is a heavy blade with a cut-off point. A narrow groove runs along the back of the blade, and the spine carries saw teeth. The steel is bare: light along the edge, darker toward the spine, with no pattern.

Below the blade sits a steel guard with a hole through it. The handle is black, with three finger grooves and rivets. The counter version looks the same as the plain one.

How the plain ★ StatTrak™ Huntsman Knife differs from a skinned one

A skinned lot is judged by wear and pattern. A lot without a skin cannot be judged by either:

• there is no wear name, and no float is listed;


• there is no pattern, so copies cannot be told apart;


• a name tag can go on, but there are no stickers;


• the only thing that changes from lot to lot is the number on the counter.

What is left to decide is whether you want the counter.

What the ★ StatTrak™ Huntsman Knife costs

By starting price, the ★ StatTrak™ Huntsman Knife sits above nineteen of the model's skins and below fifteen. Its nearest neighbors beneath it are Case Hardened (1.10 times cheaper), Tiger Tooth (1.15 times) and Blue Steel (1.38 times).

Above it stand Marble Fade (10 percent more), Slaughter (18 percent) and Gamma Doppler Phase 4, which costs 27 percent more. The top of the line belongs to Doppler: Sapphire costs 3.9 times as much, Ruby 5.6 times and Black Pearl 7 times.

StatTrak and the normal version

The Huntsman Knife also comes in a normal version, sold as a separate listing. The counter tallies kills made with this exact knife, never resets and passes to the buyer as it stands. The counter version costs about 1.4 times the normal one.

Getting the ★ StatTrak™ Huntsman Knife

The ★ StatTrak™ Huntsman Knife drops from a single case, the Huntsman Weapon Case. There it sits in the rare special item pool alongside the model's skins, and the opening is random: you cannot choose bare steel or a skin in advance.

The other route is a trade-up contract of five Covert StatTrak skins from one collection. Which rare special item comes back is not known beforehand.

Who it suits

Buying the ★ StatTrak™ Huntsman Knife on LIS-SKINS makes sense when:

• you want a broad blade with a saw spine and a kill counter;


• the pattern on the steel does not matter, and you would rather skip floats and phases;


• paying seven times more for a Doppler Black Pearl is not part of the plan.