★ Huntsman Knife | Freehand (Field-Tested)

The ★ Huntsman Knife | Freehand in Field-Tested (FT) is a CS2 huntsman knife with a purple blade covered in silver marker writing. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. The knife comes out of the Operation Riptide Case or the Dreams & Nightmares Case. The finish has five wears, and its float scale runs from 0.00 to 0.48.

What the ★ Huntsman Knife | Freehand looks like in Field-Tested

The tip of the blade is cut at a tanto angle, and saw teeth run along the spine. Valve says the knife is painted black and purple, then drawn over with metallic marker. On the blade that comes out as a purple fill thickly covered in silver-white scrawls: angular letters, curls, symbols and small figures. The handle is black and ribbed, with purple screws, and the guard and pommel are purple too.

This wear of the ★ Huntsman Knife | Freehand lies between 0.15 and 0.38, which is almost half the finish's scale. Signs of wear are already visible on the tip, the teeth and the ribs of the handle, and they are locked in at drop.

Where the ★ Huntsman Knife | Freehand came from

The finish came out with Operation Riptide, which Valve launched on September 22, 2021. Since January 21, 2022 it has had a second case as well, Dreams & Nightmares.

What to check before buying

In a listing of the ★ Huntsman Knife | Freehand, these parameters are worth checking:

• float: in this wear both 0.15 and 0.38 fit, and listings at those two ends look different;


• the wear in the name: with this finish Battle-Scarred costs noticeably more than the rest, and Factory New costs 1.4 times as much;


• the applied name: a name tag on a huntsman knife is allowed, but stickers cannot be attached to it;


• the version of the listing: a StatTrak knife is sold as a separate product.

What the ★ Huntsman Knife | Freehand costs in Field-Tested

Factory New costs 1.4 times as much as Field-Tested, and Minimal Wear and Well-Worn a seventh more. Battle-Scarred costs 2.4 times as much: the finish's scale breaks off at 0.48, so it takes only the 0.45 to 0.48 band, about six percent of the scale.

Among Covert huntsman knife finishes in this wear, Freehand is in the middle of the row, with seven cheaper and ten pricier. Scorched is 5% higher, Night and Damascus Steel more than a quarter higher, Lore and Autotronic 1.5 times higher, and Crimson Web 1.9 times. Urban Masked and Black Laminate sit two to four percent below it, Ultraviolet seven, Bright Water eleven and Safari Mesh fifteen. The top of the row is Blue Steel, Case Hardened and Slaughter, costing two, 2.6 and three times as much.

Getting the ★ Huntsman Knife | Freehand

The knife drops from the Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case, and the wear you get is random. A contract is another route: five Covert skins from one collection give one rare special item, and neither the model nor the painting can be chosen. The listing you want is bought ready-made.

Is there a StatTrak version

A StatTrak version of the ★ Huntsman Knife | Freehand exists in the game.

Who this wear suits

The ★ Huntsman Knife | Freehand in this wear is worth buying when:

• you want a purple blade with silver painting that already shows signs of wear;


• your CS2 loadout is built on purple and black;


• you want the wear that costs 2.4 times less than Battle-Scarred and nearly a third less than Factory New.