 The most common weapons among hunters are rifles, large handguns, and bows.With a land area of , not counting the Aleutian islands, Alaska is one-fifth the size of lower 48 states, and as Ken Schultz  notes in his chapter on Alaska  "Alaska is a bounty of more than 3,000 rivers, more than 3 million lakes, and some 34,000 miles of coastal shoreline — numbers that stagger the imagination, underscore the wealth of opportunities for anglers, and translate into some of North America’s premier fishing.