The Baker family's connections with the Te Anau Basin go back more than half a century when Russell's father worked on the electrical supplies during the last stages of the Homer Tunnel construction. By 1964 Te Anau had become the family's permanent home and it wasn't long before Russell combined two of his favourite pastimes deer-hunting and aviation. In the late 1960s he was involved in venison recovery as a meathunter and after passing his commercial pilot's licence in 1975 he used fixed wing aircraft to cany out deer shot by helicopter crews on the West Coast and Fiordland's remote valleys. In 1984 Russell and a couple of business partners set up a scenic flight company based in Te Anau - Air Fiordland. It is now one of the leading flight operators in the southern region. These topics are the main focus of this interview in which Russell provides some descriptive details of a day's work meathunting "on the hill". It should be noted that this is not a full oral history recording.