Raycasting Help

I'm trying to learn about Raycasting and am trying to use it to open a treasure chest. Basically, the chest will cast a ray that goes out a certain distance and if it collides with a gameobject tagged player, it should play an animation to open the treasure chest. For some reason, it is not recognizing the collision. Any Ideas?

  public Animation chestOpen;
  public RaycastHit hit;
 
  void openTreaure()
  {
      if(Physics.Raycast(transform.position, Vector3.forward, out hit, 200.0F))
      {
          if(hit.collider.gameObject.tag == "Player" )
          {
              print("In Range");
              animation.Play("box_open");
          }
      }
  }