Signup for the 2014-15 Junior Marksmanship Program

November 28, 2014

Sponsored by the Bismarck-Mandan Rifle and Pistol Association


Sign-up for the 2014-2015 Bismarck-Mandan Rifle and Pistol Association’s Junior Marksmanship Program will be December 4, 2014, at the Johnson Family Marksmanship Center located at 4667 Skyway in south Bismarck (about 1.8 miles south of the airport) at 6:30pm.


Goals of the program are to learn firearms safety and marksmanship.


Juniors are also introduced to the shooting sports. Many of the juniors in this program have gone on to compete at state and national competitions including the National Junior Olympic Shooting Championships held each year at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado.


The program is for young adults 12-20 years old.


The program will run through Thursday, March 19, 2015.


Our Junior Club championship will be Saturday, March 21, 2015.


All the equipment for the program is provided including rifles, spotting scopes, shooting jackets, gloves, slings, shooting mats, eye and ear protection.


This is the 23rd year of the program.


Instruction for the program is provided by NRA Certified Instructors and Coaches.


Cost of the program is $40.


If you have any questions please call Tom or Tina Thompson at (701) 255-4601 or Mary Kay or Dave Tokach at (701) 663-8626.

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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