2011 NDSSA Annual Membership Meeting and Awards Banquet

January 7, 2011

The NDSSA will have their membership meeting in the afternoon. Please attend to see what’s going on in the shooting sports in North Dakota.


The meeting will be held in Bismarck on Saturday, January 29, 2011 (more information can be found in the flyer).


In the evening, there will be the NDSSA annual banquet, awards and Hall of Fame presentation.


If you are (or know of someone) that is a 2010 state champion, set a state record in 2010, or is a Distinguished Rifleman, Pistol Shot, or Junior Distinguished, please attend the annual meeting for recognition by your peers. In addition, we will have state championship replica trophies (for events that do not provide a trophy at the state championship match) and certificates for new state records.


A block of rooms have been reserved and are available for the nights of January 28 and 29. They can be reserved by calling the Doublewood Inn at (701) 258-7000. Please make your room reservations before January 9. Inform the Doublewood Inn that you are attending the NDSSA banquet when making your reservations. We have a limited number of rooms at a discount price, so make your reservations early!


Call Dave Tokach at (701) 663-8626 for more information and tickets.


Please pass this on to others that might be interested in attending the NDSSA annual meeting.



Thank you and see you at the annual meeting.

Marlin Fried

January 18, 2026
Dear BMRPA Members, It is with a heavy heart that I am writing to let all of you know that the BMRPA has lost one of its founding fathers. Marlin Fried, the namesake of the Fried Family Marksmanship Center, passed away this week. He is survived by his wife Leanne, children and grandchildren. While Marlin has not been active as a shooter with BMRPA for several years, we would still occasionally see him at the outdoor range in his red Chevy pickup, tending to the trees he had planted. In years before, many of you might have known Marlin from Gun City, the shop he started on Main Street in Bismarck. For those of you have never made it to Gun City, it was the type of unique gun store we don’t really get to see anymore. Not all of the trees at the Fried Family Marksmanship Center were planted by Marlin but a great many of them were. He embodied the spirit of old men planting trees which they will never live to enjoy the shade of. It was that spirit of providing for future generations and his enthusiasm for marksmanship and firearms ownership that inspired Marlin to donate the land that the Fried Family Marksmanship Center sits on today. The BMRPA, a club founded by competitive shooters coming together never had its own facility before Marlin’s gift. It was that gift by Marlin and the Fried Family that was one of the greatest factors turning the BMRPA into an organization that provides opportunities for competitors, youth and female shooters and provides a space to exercise our freedom. For that gift, we are thankful and appreciate how uncommon an act such as that is.  So, Marlin and the Fried Family, we thank you! We also wish to express our condolences to the Fried family for their loss during this sad time. A memorial service will be held at 11:30AM on Monday, January 19, 2026, and visitation will be held Sunday, January 18, at 5:30PM at Bismarck Funeral Home, and 7pm prayer service. https://www.bismarckfuneralhome.com/obituaries/marlin-fried Tom Headrick President, BMRPA

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