The case ‘bumpers’ that extend beyond the pusher for the Triple Sensor activation do a good job in preventing accidental activation. The buttons are are easy to index and press even with gloves on. From an operator standpoint, the watch doesn’t have enough bulkiness to hinder the use of a firearm, whether it be a long gun / carbine or a pistol. ![]() The Rangeman is also a “Tough Solar” watch, which means that it uses Casio’s solar battery technology, and has a water resistance of 20 bar (200 meters on the Casio specifications sheet).Īfter wearing the watch a few times, I can say that it’s a fine G-Shock to use. For reference, I have a 7″ wrist and the Rangeman GW-9400 measures 55.2 × 53.5 × 18.2 mm according to the Casio specifications sheet. The lugs and rubber strap confirm to the wrist well. Even though it has a big, thick case, it wears comfortably. The watch itself is pretty big, as are most G-Shocks. The Triple Sensor is activated via a large button on the 3 o’clock side of the case and it gives quick readings each time the button is depressed to cycle through the readouts. The core of the Rangeman is the Triple Sensor which measures compass bearing, altitude/atmospheric pressure, and temperature. This would make sense since most operators wouldn’t wear black accessories, because it has been proven that black in camouflage schemes actually adversely affects blending with the environment. It would appear that the military / OD green color scheme is popular. Note: I was in that same Macy’s location a week later and saw that they were out of the green GW-9400-3CR. Between her and I buying green Rangeman G-Shocks, that left one more in the display case. While I was getting rung up at the counter, a woman came up and bought a green Rangeman noting to me that she went to a number of Macy’s in our area and this location was the only one that had any. Macy’s tag price is $300USD (which I believe is the US MSRP), but they had a 25% coupon that I took advantage of. I ended up trying on a GW-9400-3CR (green) Rangeman and decided to buy it. The Rangeman incorporates weather reading features of the Casio PRO TREK line, but in a case design more militaristic in feel. The Rangeman GW-9400 was announced back in September 2013 as a continuation of the “Master of G” line, which is supposed to be Casio’s line of G-Shock watches angled towards the most ‘extreme’ use. I was intrigued by the Rangeman because I had read some limited information about this new model of G-Shock a few months prior on the Internet. ![]() They had five or six in black, but only three in the military / OD green. A few weeks ago I was wandering through a local Macy’s department store and while in the watch section I noticed they had a several copies of the black and green Casio G-Shock Rangeman GW-9400.
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