Scent of a Woman. Pacino was able to do that with a 1911 Colt. Blind.
There was a time when the skills to field strip, in the dark, a 1911 AND an M-1 were widely distributed among those in the population that had a pair in working order.
You just had to make sure you kept control of the springs when you released them, as they were hard to find in the dark.