2011 North Dakota State Games Highpower Matches

September 17, 2011

Sponsored by: Bismarck-Mandan Pistol and Rifle Association
Fired on July 9 and 10, 2011


Yes – this is a bit late however, I finally had some time to put together a match bulletin. Thanks to everyone who participated in the 2011 North Dakota State Games matches fired on July 9 and 10, 2011. This was probably the last State Games for North Dakota. I’m not sure things will come together for another state games. This is unfortunate. People have often heard me talk about the Montana State games I attended while I lived in Billings. They had a great state games. The shooting sports were always very well attended at their state games. The Montana State Games were held on the same weekend in July every year, and always held in Billings – two things that I think contributed to the success of their state games.


We try to do the same thing with our shooting sports schedule in North Dakota. This past summer’s events will be held on approximately the same weekends 2012. We are currently working on the 2012 schedule. So check the NDSSA web site occasionally. The 2012 calendar should be going up in a month or 2. While you’re on the web site, I encourage you do download the membership application, join the North Dakota Shooting Sports Association, and get more active in the shooting sports in North Dakota.


The 2011 season is quickly moving to the end. We have one more highpower event on the calendar in Rolla on September 24 and 25. There will be an M1 Garand match (Sat morning, Sept 24), the North Dakota Mid-Range State Champ (right after the Garand Match), and then the Annual Bruce Alexander Memorial Highpower Match on Sunday, Sept 25. Call Andy Johnson (match director) to sign up for the match (701-477-6687).


Tom Thompson
Match Director

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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