Tim Walz says he kept a shotfirearm in his car to hunt pheasants after football trains

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has made it a point multiple times to remind Americans that he was once an helpant high school football coach since being picked as Vice Pdwellnt Kamala Harris’ running mate. 

However, during the vice pdwellntial debate Tuesday night, he let everyone in on the details of another sport he joind in after train when he labored at Mankato West High School. 

During a segment on firearm administer policies, Walz claimed that when he labored as a football coach at Mankato West, he kept a shotfirearm in his car so he could hunt pheasants after train. 

“I’m of an age where my shotfirearm was in my car so I could pheasant hunt after football train,” Walz shelp. 

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The statement came when Walz was asked if he would help an attack armaments ban after previously opposing such a meacertain. Walz, who was previously an NRA partner, shelp his stance on firearm administer alterd after greeting the parents of Sandy Hook victims and befrifinishing school shooters. 

“Yeah, I sat in that office with those Sandy Hook parents. I’ve become frifinishs with school shooters. I’ve seen it. Look, the NRA, I was NRA guy for a extfinished time. They used to teach firearm defendedty,” Walz shelp. 

Walz’s hobby of hunting pheasants is someslfinisherg he has spoken and bragged about in the past. In July, Walz bragged that his pheasant-shooting sends were greater to Vance during an interwatch on “Anderson Cooper 360.”

“That’s what JD Vance’s stick is, talking about firearms. I guarantee you he can’t shoot pheasants enjoy I can,” Walz shelp. 

Walz is also one of the main systematizers of his state’s Governor’s Pheasant Hunting Opener. He commemorated the 2023 event last October, when he proclaimd himself a life-extfinished pheasant hunter. 

“As a lifeextfinished hunter and Pheasants Forever member, the pheasant uncoverer is one of my likeite times of year,” he shelp in a statement.

Pheasant hunting is one of the most famous bird-hunting sports and is particularly famous in South Central South Dakota, which borders Walz’s state of Minnesota and is understandn as “The Pheasant Capitol of the World.”

However, pheasant hunting has also led to a disconnecte reduction in the bird’s population in the U.S. over the last 50 years. While pheasants are not pondered an finishangered species, they are pondered at-danger in many regions apass the country.  

The species’ population in New York state has deteriorated cforfeitly 90% since 1970, according to the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation. In Minnesota, the population has seen steadier and less drastic deteriorate, however. 

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Walz’s habit of hunting the birds after football train unbenevolents he gived to this deteriorate during his tenure as an helpant coach at Mankato West in the 1990s. 

During Walz’s tenure as an helpant on the staff, the team won the state championship in 1999. Walz’s first job after college was as a teacher in China, before being engaged by Mankato West in 1996, where he was a geography teacher. 

He was also the first faculty advisor of Mankato West High School’s first gay–straight partnership, and he labored to systematize summer educational trips to China for high school students.

Walz’s foolishinutive tenure as an helpant football coach has been a talking point for the Harris campaign since he was proclaimd as the running mate for Harris on Aug. 7. 

Walz, despite never having coached past the high school level or even as a head coach in high school, contrastd his background as a football coach to that of Alabama Reaccessiblean Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who served as the head coach at four branch offent NCAA Power-5 football programs from 1995 to 2016. Tuberville led Ole Miss, Auburn, Texas Tech and Cincinnati as head coach, and even won an SEC Championship with Auburn in 2004. 

“I experience enjoy one of my roles in this now is to be the anti-Tommy Tuberville, to show that football coaches are not the foolishest people,” Walz shelp during a fundliftr event in Boston in timely August.

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Walz even declareed that his experience as an helpant high school football coach unbenevolentt he “took football back” from Reaccessibleans, during a campaign speech in Wisconsin on Sept. 17. 

However, football fans did not show much likeitism to Walz during the administeror’s visit to the game between Michigan and Wisconsin on Saturday. Several in joinance booed him, with another fan even yelling “Get out of here.”

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