Welcome to our new website

January 30, 2013

As you can see, our website has been redone from the ground up, hopefully for the better! Here is a list of the most important changes:


Articles on the front page

When news articles and results were posted on the old website, it was a bit hard to notice them. Now, whenever news or results are published, they show up right on the front page. We also have the ability for more important news to “stick” at the top of the list for as long as needed.


Calendar – Categories

While viewing the calendar, you now can quickly select which category of event you wish to look at. Click on the “All Event Categories” button (located above the calendar) and a dropdown menu listing the disciplines will appear.


Event reminders via Google Calendar gc_button2

The new calendar provides a feature some of you will greatly appreciate. When you click on an event in the calendar, you will be taken to that event’s page. On that page, there is a button you can click to set the event in your Google Calendar so you get a reminder. No more excuses for missing a match!


Follow Us Button

You can subscribe to the website’s RSS news feed feed-icon-16x16. It is located on the right, below the Search field.


Share Buttons

We have also added Share buttons so you can easily share what you read here with your friends on Facebook facebook, Twitter twitter, Blogger blogger, and even via email email. To get access to these buttons, click on the title of the post you want to share. This will open the post on its own page where the buttons are displayed at the beginning of the article.


Polls

You will notice that no polls are currently displayed. We still have the capability. So, if someone requests a poll, we can post it.

Everything should have made it through the transfer, but if you notice something missing or a link that goes nowhere, be sure to let me know.


We sincerely hope you will enjoy our new website!


Myriam “Thunder Wolf” Vennie

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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