Yep, it's a takedown... Pretty slick little rig. .25-20 is such a pleasurable little round to shoot. Maybe I should stunt shoot my deer next year with it....grin I've got a friend who's a rancher out here, and his grandpa's go-to rifle was a .25-20 '92, and he killed just about everything in Eastern Montana with that back in the old days... That rifle could tell some stories.