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Location: Green Bay, WI | Where is the reason? I can think of a few reasons *not* to buy a Ranger...
1) Super expensive
2) Poor cockpit layout for a (mainly) troller
3) Rough ride in heavy seas
4) No factory customization available--what you see is what you get
Of course one thing their boats have going for them is the name. When you go to sell them, there really isn't a problem. This seems to especially be true for those rigs with four-stroke engines, as they seem to be gone within a few days of being listed.
Anyway I am not saying that Rangers aren't great boats, because they are. But they aren't THE boat for everyone, and there are other great boats out there as well. If a guy trolls most of the time, they aren't as good as the floor plan of something like a Warrior or a Skeeter. The big open cockpits of the Warrior V203 or the Skeeter WX 2100 are VERY hard to beat when trolling. And if you go check out those other boats on Walleye Central or one of the other walleye boards, it seems as though their reputations are every bit as good as that of the Ranger rigs...at least where it really matters.
So I definitely understand the attraction for the Ranger rigs, honestly. But they may not the perfect boat for everyone--especially if you don't spend most of your time casting from the bow. The task is to figure out which boat is the "best" for my needs...
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