NDSU Pistol Team Demo on January 31, 2014

January 25, 2014

Ladies,


We have the opportunity to have the members of NDSU Women’s Pistol Team introduce and demonstrate the sport of bull’s-eye pistol shooting. We hope you will get fired up to attend as we’d like to use this forum as a springboard to get area ladies interested in participating in the sport or just come to our ladies only night.


Date: Friday, January 31, 2014
Location: Johnson Family Marksmanship Center (indoor range)
Time: 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Cost to shoot: $12 for non members, $5 for members
Contact: Bev Allen at (701) 226-0275 or Mary Kay Tokach at (701) 226-4868


We will start in the classroom where team coach and U.S.A. Shooting assistant national pistol coach, Eric Pueppke, of Amenia, N.D., will do a basics of pistol shooting while the team demos for the first 30 minutes and then move to the range for a live fire demonstration. They will also have time for live fire with the attendees who bring their own firearms and ammunition. There is a limited number of club pistols and ammunition for a fee for those without personal firearms.


You must be range certified to shoot on the range. Certification will be done at 7:00 p.m. for those who do not have it and would like to shoot that night. Please come early for this.

NDSU sophomore Alana Townsend takes aim at a target with her air pistol. The Montana native is already a member of the National Junior Olympic team, and she’s traveled to Europe multiple times to compete. Dave Wallis / The Forum


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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