I bought a one of the new Concealment Trainer Shirts from Arrowhead Tactical, as the weather is getting nicer here and we've gone from snow this weekend to sunny and 75 degrees within a few days and it is now t-shirt weather.
Arrowhead Tactical was out of stock on the short-sleeve t-shirts in my size (and indeed most sizes, they seem to be quite popular) so I got one of their t-shirts with the long-sleeves.
The shirt has a dazzle camouflage approach to concealment that is purported to break up the outline of your carry firearm under what is a very thin athletic shirt.
The shirt arrived quickly.
The good: It is impressively comfortable. The shirt material is thin, very breathable, and feels great.
Kinda cool looking, and likely to give someone a headache if they stare at you for too long.
The not so good: The thin material really sticks to both your body and to the firearm, rather than loosely draping over it, and it gives a very obvious outline.
With a Walther PDP:
The smaller but just as print-y Sig P365X:
The printing is unfortunately rather prominent with both firearms, even from a distance. Up close, it is rather obvious that you are carrying, even with the distraction of the dazzle print.
Some of this is likely due to my having some, ahem, reserve muscle mass around the middle. This likely makes for more printing. Possibly, if you're not quite as soft in the middle as I am at the moment, and have that classic athletic build, it might very well work better for you as demonstrated in their videos of the product.
But it doesn't work for me, so, I'm returning the Concealment Trainer Shirt.
All is not lost however, their thicker and more standard type of concealment t-shirt is just the ticket for me. That Oversized ConcealTee t-shirt works great and doesn't print nearly as much, if at all, as it is not nearly as tight to the body and doesn't cling to the firearm, so I'm keeping that one for sure.
So, if you've got an athletic body the Concealment Trainer Shirt may work well for you as it is both light and comfortable, with a pretty cool design. But, if you're like me with a not-so-athletic body, the more standard concealment t-shirt is in my opinion the way to go for summer carrying, and they're a tad cheaper, too.
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Since we are in Michigan we have it a bit easier than in states where open carry is verboten. I still try to drape my cover shirt over my carry gun. But I now have a sort of photographers vest that is pretty good at concealing and it has a ton of pockets, which in my case is a good thing.
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