Gov. Tim Walz hunts in Minnesota's pheasant opener

Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan also hunted during the opening; She also didn't kill a pheasant, according to the Associated Press.

After two hours of hunting and a dog change, Walz's team returned to the farm's grounds to conduct an interview with social media influencers. While the governor avoided talking politics during the hunt, Walz spoke with Vetter about a stalled farm bill in Congress.

“We passed three of them, and we did it (in a) bipartisan (way),” said Walz, who represented southern Minnesota in Congress for a dozen years before running for governor.

Later, Walz's motorcade wound north and east through farmland, past combines harvesting corn, to Sleepy Eye, where he slipped into a crowded downtown brewery. In many ways, the trip was similar to a pheasant opener every year, only this time a motorcade, a dozen vehicles long, pulled out of an alley.

A patron, who declined to give her name but said she grew up in Madelia and lived in New Ulm, was buying a six-pack of beer when she told the bartender, “Is that Walz?” I don't have time for this one Guy.”

When Walz later briefly emerged from an adjoining room, a chorus of cheers greeted him from the balcony before he hurried to the motorcade.