Walz celebrated opening day of pheasant hunting season,saying in a post, "Days like this bring me back to early mornings in the field, hunting with my dad."

Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz joined fellow hunters in Minnesota to mark the start of pheasant season hunting in the official Governor’s Pheasant Hunting Opener in the southern town of Sleepy Eye.

Walz has hunted pheasants every season as governor, but the crowd at this year’s safety briefing was much more crowded than usual because of his Democratic vice presidential candidacy. Secret Service agents and a small media contingent surrounded the governor in a sea of orange before he took his Beretta A400 into the field.