RE Ranger’s New for 2018 Professional Shooting Eyewear

RE Ranger is a company that started out repairing machinery for making glasses. When that industry began making its way overseas, they made a change and began manufacturing high-quality eyewear themselves. They specialize in protective and vision-enhancing eyewear for professional shooters, and they do it well.

I first came to know RE Ranger way back in 2007, when Olympic Champion shooter Kim Rhode drew my name as the winner of some of their shooting glasses. Sweet!! I have never been disappointed in those glasses, except that they were unable to magically transform me into a great shotgunner. Ah well.

Although their higher-line glasses can get to be expensive, last year they came out with their Phantom line. For $149 you get a frame and three “shields” (lenses), plus a storage case & pouch.

Phantom lenses (all their lenses, in fact) are made by Carl Zeiss and have a hard coating, but Phantoms lack the HydroCoat water/dirt-repelling coating found on their higher lines. New Phantom lenses for 2018 are Medium Yellow and Modified Brown.

Other new-for-2018 stuff includes Light Purple & Vermillion lenses for Falcon Pro and Falcon Sport, Light Modified Brown & “Clear with AR Coating” lenses for all frames, and the following frame colors: Desert Sand, Forest Green, Frost White, Lavender, Sky Blue, and Grass Green.

RE Ranger is not a young company, but they are clearly agile and working to stay relevant to today’s shooters.

Russ Chastain

Editor & Contributing Writer Russ Chastain is a lifelong hunter and shooter who has spent his life learning about hunting, shooting, guns, ammunition, gunsmithing, reloading, and bullet casting. He started toting his own gun in the woods at age nine and he's pursued deer with rifles since 1982, so his hunting knowledge has been growing for more than three and a half decades. His desire and ability to share this knowledge with others has also grown, and Russ has been professionally writing and editing original hunting & shooting content since 1998. Russ Chastain has a passion for sharing accurate, honest, interesting hunting & shooting knowledge and stories with people of all skill levels.