Bismarck 2021 Jan 9 & 10 Light Rifle Results 2020 Make-Up State Light Rifle Championship.

January 12, 2021

Congratulations to Travis Jorgenson, Match winner this year.


What is hard to believe is the shooting skill of 14 year old Casia Steinhaus from Devils Lake. This was her first light rifle match with a borrowed rifle and she came away with the State Championship. She did the same thing this summer during the rimfire silhouette State Championship so it is no fluke. I hope she sticks with the sport until she is old and grey like most of the other shooters. That is what I like about this sport it doesn’t matter your age or sex, everyone can can compete together and all have a chance of winning or just enjoying a friendly competition with friends and family.


I believe this is the 21st year I’ve run a light rifle match in Bismarck/Mandan. I was looking back at the people who have come and gone and surprisingly the majority of people are still shooting. I noticed this is the 20th year for Don Granlie, his first match was in 2002. Time sure does go fast except when you are looking forward to retirement, then time crawls. I will run this match for a couple more years but then I will be moving to South Dakota and someone else needs to step forward for the next 20+ years.


Thanks everyone for coming to the match, attendance was a little lower than usual due to covid and reduced shooting slots but next year will be better.


NDSSA will have an awards banquet in Bismarck on Jan 30th to honor the State Champions and new record holders.


Our next match will be Sunday January 31, 2021 I will have the same three time slots. 8:30, 10:30, and 1:00 send me an email to reserve a spot.

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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