Note from Blake Stone – 2008 SASS ND State Ladies Junior Champion

June 23, 2008

This is just a note from Blake Stone and I thought it worthy of posting for all to see.


Hi to all,


Just a note to let you know that Janella Reiswig (Misty Target) is the 2008 SASS North Dakota State Ladies Junior Champion. She took the title this past weekend at the combined ND/SD State Championships held in Enderlin, ND. She’s a first year shooter who handles herself well, knows how to run-and-gun, and truly understands the “spirit of the game”.


ps…Pa (Blake Stone) couldn’t be prouder!!


You can check out all the winners (a few from our local club) at http://www.sheyennevalleypeacekeepers.com.


The results should be posted by week’s end. Note to Dakota RoughRiders: Tom Carlson won Senior Division, CC Lakota won Senior Duelist, Dakota Maid is Ladies Senior and new ND Ladies Champion (nine days after knee surgery, the doctor said not to do house work but nothing about shooting)!


Yellowstone Vic won Frontier Cartridge and shot a clean match, again.


Doc Hell shot a clean match and was 4th in the Silver Senior Division.


Chance Calhoun won Traditional and is ND Men’s Champ for the 3rd straight year!!!


I’m sure I missed someone, so check out the results.


One other thing to note for all of those that couldn’t make it to the State Shoot, the pig roast on Saturday was delicious and the band afterwards was also wonderful but one of the biggest surprises was the singing talent of Cathouse Barbie as she belted out a couple of tunes with the band.


Dakota Dealer

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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