.45 guy here too, only 4” instead of 5”. I use to call it my winter gun, a compact 9mm being my summer gun, but then I found the perfect IWB holster for the .45. Now she’s my best girl. Never leave home without her.
I always loved the scene in the movie Sargent York where Gary Cooper was waving his 1911 around ordering the Germans to surrender and ordering them to line up “over yonder”.
Good enough for Alvin; good enough for me.