I’m definitely a one-piece guy. If you can take it down it just doesn’t feel right to me. The Comanches and Kiowas in the part of Comancheria where I was born didn’t make take downs, and neither did Apaches or Lakotas or Crow, or any others. I wouldn’t discriminate against a man with a take down, but I would not admire the bow, either–no matter how expensive and beautiful it appeared. On the other hand, it’s a real bow, unlike those mechanical arrow launchers some hunters use.