Hey Everyone... I'm a true EDC person here in S. Florida. I'm a pretty large guy, read overweight, and am really tired of EVERY ONE of my T-shirts being worn through right where my appendix carry IWB holster grip rides. I have a Sig P365X with the grip module that is Agressfully stippled... Does anyone else have this problem? Any solutions or work-arounds? I would appreciate any constructive thoughts you might have.

It comes with the territory.

Carrying any handgun, in any position, will wear on your cover garment. Aggressive grip textures accelerate this, but even nonaggressive handguns still do the same thing eventually. Thicker and looser shirts will take longer to wear through than thinner/tighter shirts, but still will eventually.

Just get used to the fact that you'll need to replace your shirts once holes start to develop.

T-shirts especially are not intended to last a lifetime...

I've gotten to the point where I buy inexpensive, generic, solid color t-shirts as my everyday casual wear. I like the Next Level brand of t-shirts, which you can get for around $8 apiece online, and which are nice and soft with a semi-athletic tapered fit. (A friend who runs a screenprinting shop turned me on to them as a source for cheap but decent quality tees.) They're fairly thin, but I usually get a few years of semi-regular wear out of any particular one before I start getting pinholes around the area where the handgun rides. Once one starts to wear out, it gets demoted to gym/bum-around/lawnmowing attire, before eventually being turned into rags. Then I just buy more $8ish tees to replace them.

That's just what happens. You bump against a hard surface like car doors or tables, and the shirts eventually get moth holes.

Raven makes a holster in which both the front and the back have sweat guards to prevent what you are talking about. I forget the name of the holster but I know my G 19/23 fit. Don't know if they make one for the model gun you carry.

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Originally posted by Bulldog7972:
Raven makes a holster in which both the front and the back have sweat guards to prevent what you are talking about. I forget the name of the holster but I know my G 19/23 fit. Don't know if they make one for the model gun you carry.

^^^^^^ The JAKE by name... sweat guards both sides on main body of pistol but grip areas uncovered. ................... drill sgt.

Which might help slow down the shirt wear a little, but won't prevent it.

The majority of the wear isn't from the slide, but the edges, corners, and texture of the grip and magazine baseplate.