Varmint Rifle Match – Rules Update
July 17, 2012
I’ve made a few rules and proceedure changes and added some clarifications. They’re in the rules secion but, here’s a synopsis:
- All classes are open to all rifle calibers permitted at the outdoor range. So, if you’re thinking of bringing your .338 LM, remember it’s a 20 round match!
- You can sight-in any time before 9:30 a.m.
- We’ll run the relays through twice. Best of the two targets will be used for score.
- Silhouette order is at the shooter’s discretion.
- No penalty for cross-firing. Only ten hits are scored. If there are more than 10 hits, only the high 10 will count. So, if you fire on someone else’s target, you may be bettering their score if you’re both making the same size holes. Be sure to verify your target number before each shot. The number will be on the lower right corner of the target. Also, Tom Liebel made up some number plates that will be mounted on the top of the target frame to help identify each target. Thank Tom!
- It’s best to keep only the 10 rounds needed for the relay on your bench. It’s easy to lose track of how many you’ve fired since you will be engaging your silhouettes in an unspecified order. Have your spotter hold extra rounds in case of malfunction.
You can download a pdf of the updated rules right here: Varmint Rifle Competition Rules.
See you at the match!
Gary Vennie
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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