Beautiful gun, though, being a Baer, I'm sure it was built to be a shooter first and a show piece second. I can understand and appreciate your decision not to use it, however, your story reminds me of how I came to carry and use my best guns, custom 1911s, all the time.
I shot a couple of matches with a distinguished older gentleman, a retired SF officer, several years ago, he's since passed but I won't forget him. He was shooting a fully engraved, ivory stocked, Dane Burns custom 1927 Colt. I asked him about the gun because I was amazed he was shooting it. He told me he had a matching 1923 Colt at home and he'd had Burns build the pair for him to replace a brace of Colts he'd carried since Armand Swenson built them for him in 1967 and he'd retired to the safe after almost 40 years.
He taught me that no matter what the cost, if a gun is built to be shot, shoot it, if it is built to be carried, carry it, otherwise, and I quote, "What's the point of spending all that money, son?".