Drawn to its full 35-pound resistance, the bowstring describes a perfect triangle, its apex kissing the corner of Lindsey Carmichael’s mouth.

The 23-year-old archer squints through an impossibly small peep sight and acquires the target — an Olympic-style, Robin Hood kind of round backstop way off, down at the back of a dead-end street.

Muscle-memory, brain-train, practice-till-it’s-perfect instinct takes over, and the wire-thin composite arrow — 29.5 inches long — squirts off the bow with a dull mechanical thunk, flying in a long, looping trail toward the target. It arrives down range less than a second later, slapping into the yellow bull’s-eye, imbedded to the fletching.

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