Outdoor Range Use this weekend – September 9, 10 and 11

September 8, 2022

NOTE TO CLUB MEMBERS: This coming Fridays, Saturday and Sunday (September 9, 10 and 11, 2022) the BMRPA is hosting a Long Range Regional Championship. This match has been an annual event held at our outdoor range since 2004. Since firing will be done behind the main firing line canopy – the main firing line canopy and the Action Shooting area will be closed during this event. However, the main firing line canopy and the Action Shooting area will re-open at the conclusion of firing, and after the target pits (target area) are secured each day – approximately 4 – 5:00pm on Friday and Saturday and approximately 2 -3pm on Sunday. Times may vary depending on weather conditions – for example, if there is a rain delay, the match will run later in the day. The range will not be open in the morning since match personnel and club members will be downrange setting up for the match. If you have any questions, please contact Tom Thompson at 220-4601. Thank you.

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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