FAST match stages are long, with a lot of shooting to get done. For the shooter, this is a great thing. We recently shot FAST-Idaho, which was held at the Parma Rod & Gun Club in Parma, Idaho. Read More…..
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“For the younger readers who didn’t grow up during one of the greatest decades, Aliens, directed by James Cameron, was released in 1986. It was a direct sequel to Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979).
Whereas Alien was more of a horror film set on a starship, Aliens was an action movie. Intended by Cameron to be an allegory for the Vietnam War, Aliens’ story included the Colonial Marines, who are heavily armed with advanced weaponry. Despite their firepower advantages, the Colonial Marines struggle and lose in combat against the titular aliens due to poor leadership, corporate subterfuge, and restrictive rules of engagement.
The Colonial Marines are equipped with helmet-mounted cameras that live stream to their command element. They have smart weapons that auto-track movement: both man-portable and emplaced sentry guns. Their personal equipment includes motion trackers, thermal imaging, and electronic warfare (hacking). Much of this probably sounds like familiar real-world concepts today; science fiction often inspires the next generation of engineers to make that fiction a reality.
Alien and Aliens did a lot of world-building through the visual styling of the technology. This style has since come to be known as “cassette futurism”: analog controls, simple LED electronic displays, hard industrial lines. This visual design style carries over to the Colonial Marines weapons and equipment as well.
The M41A Pulse Rifle is the standard-issue small arm of the Colonial Marines. The M41A is described in-universe as using 10x24mm caseless cartridges that are fired by an electric pulse (hence the term Pulse Rifle) with a muzzle energy equivalent to .300 Win Mag. It is fed via a 100-round U-conveyer magazine, with most Marines downloading their mags to 95 for reliability. Read More…..
Episode 2 of the XTech FAST Match Series. In a match, standing still is slow, but moving wrong gets you disqualified. This week, Russell shows us how to move efficiently between positions while staying safe and keeping the muzzle downrange.
We break down movement drills you can practice at home, starting with a handgun and working up to a rifle. No range required. If you want to move faster without being a danger to yourself or everyone around you, this is where it starts.
Two regular guys, six weeks, one match. Follow along as we train for our first 2 gun competition
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“Russell Phagan has never met a shooting sport rule he didn’t want to push. From building out the Brutality match series with InRangeTV, to founding FAST (Firearms Action Shooting Trials) as its own standalone series, to his day job as VP at KE Arms, he’s spent two decades finding the edge of what a “practical” gun match can look like — and now he’s found a new one. FAST’s newest division is Auto-Rifle: full-auto and forced-reset-trigger rifles, competing on the same stages as everyone else, for the first time in a mainstream two-gun series. The division debuts at FAST-ID in Parma, Idaho, this October, presented by X-Tech Tactical, with Red Right Hand sponsoring a dedicated Auto-Rifle stage where every competitor — regardless of division — gets to run a belt-fed gun. Russell returns to break down why FAST is willing to build rules around FRTs when most series won’t. I’ll be there, so hope to see some of you out there at the match!”
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