Raycast can't detect gameobject

Physics
1

I’m trying to make a simple fighting game.
I figured I’d use Raycast to check if the opponent is in range, but encountered a problem. My Raycast can’t detect the other player.

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.Events;

public class player_1 : MonoBehaviour {

    public float reach = 2;
    public bool inRange = false;

void FixedUpdate ()
    {
RaycastHit hit;
        Ray punchRay = new Ray (transform.position, Vector3.right * reach);

        Debug.DrawRay (transform.position, Vector3.right * reach);

        if (Physics.Raycast (punchRay, out hit, reach)) {
            if (hit.collider.gameObject.tag == "player_2")
               inRange = true;
        }
}
        }

Hope you can help.

2

print out the tag of the hit. Check to see that the raycast is not hitting the source object or something else is in the way.

Debug.Log(hit.collider.tag);

What do you mean “inRange” like distance or trajectory/