[QUOTE=Christopher Lien;248405]It appears my suspicions were correct, Hedderly was indeed an illusive character when it came to being immortalized on film. I came across the previously mentioned photo image of Edwin with his Parker 28ga and the limit of ducks over his shoulder, but that is all I could find... Running and gunning with the southern Ca crowd, there must be more photos of Hedderly's Hunting and Trapshooting adventures somewhere... The search continues...
Best, CSL___________________________
Just to give you a reality check (and as everyone knows, "reality bites"), on a business trip to Sacramento CA years ago, after business concluded mid-morning on the last day, I spent the rest of the day in the State Game Commission Archives looking through hundreds of photographs and leafing through many more monthly Game Commission Reports. (Hedderly became a game commissioner in the late 19-teens/early 1920s and remained one throughout that decade).
Most all of his writings were concentrated on fishing regulations and trout stocking reports or habitat improvement, mostly for upland gamebirds (quail at the time). Writings on duck hunting were comparatively nonexistent, the 'golden age' of the southern CA clubs waning into oblivion.
I found not one photograph in their voluminous files that one could positively identify as Hedderly (and at 6ft. 6 inches, he is hard to miss!!). Most were telephoto-range shots of workmen and state game officers offloading trucks, standing on the running boards of open cars, or wielding nets along causeways.
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