★ M9 Bayonet | Blue Steel (Field-Tested)

The ★ M9 Bayonet | Blue Steel in Field-Tested (FT) sits on a band of middle width: 23% of the finish's float scale. It is a bayonet of Covert rank, with the ★ mark, and in CS2 it drops from the CS:GO Weapon Case and ten other cases. The float spans 0.15 to 0.38.

What the ★ M9 Bayonet | Blue Steel looks like in Field-Tested

The blade is dark blue, like blued steel, with a gray cast on the flat. Saw-tooth serrations run along the spine, and an oval hole is cut through the blade. The guard and the ring at the handle are blue-gray; the handle itself is olive-gray and ribbed.

Copies in this wear can carry different amounts of wear, because the 0.15 to 0.38 band is wide. The wear shows along the edge of the blade and on the guard: toward the low end of the band there is less of it, toward the high end more.

Where the ★ M9 Bayonet | Blue Steel came from

In the item text Valve says the M9 bayonet was first meant for a rifle but works just as well in close combat. The finish is cold blued, and that is where the name Blue Steel comes from.

What to check before buying

Listings of the ★ M9 Bayonet | Blue Steel are compared on these points:

• float: from 0.15 to 0.38, with a cleaner blade at the low end and a more worn one at the high end;
• name tag: allowed, and it passes to the buyer;
• StatTrak: a bayonet with a kill counter is a separate listing.

What the ★ M9 Bayonet | Blue Steel costs in Field-Tested

Factory New costs 1.73 times as much, and Minimal Wear 1.13 times. Well-Worn is cheaper by a factor of 1.11, Battle-Scarred by 1.04.

Among the eighteen Covert M9 Bayonet finishes in Field-Tested, Blue Steel is third from the top: only Slaughter and Autotronic cost more, and fifteen cost less. Case Hardened is right beside it, Lore, Crimson Web and Black Laminate sit below, and Damascus Steel is noticeably cheaper. The row starts with Boreal Forest, Safari Mesh and Forest DDPAT.

Getting the ★ M9 Bayonet | Blue Steel

The finish comes out of eleven cases, the eSports 2013 Case among them, and the wear is set at the drop.

Cases are not the only road. Five Covert skins of one type can go into a craft, but the result is random, and neither the finish nor the model is assigned in advance.

Is there a StatTrak version

The game also has a StatTrak version of the ★ M9 Bayonet | Blue Steel.

Who this wear suits

Buying the ★ M9 Bayonet | Blue Steel in Field-Tested makes sense for these purposes:

• you want a bayonet in recognizable blue steel, and Factory New costs 1.73 times as much;
• Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred are cheaper by only 1.11 and 1.04 times, so the saving is small and the wear is more visible;
• on the wide 0.15 to 0.38 band you can pick a copy by float.