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[Slinkyfest]

    Its year 5 of my fort, I have 3 champion marksdwarves and one of them decided to pick up my artifact aluminum mace. Now, I've told her to drop it, (forbid, hide) and when I do she moves to pick up her crossbow, but stops. Turns around, and walks the other way. Then she stops again, and turns to drop it but is stuck in a loop of cancelling tasks.
     Its a little bothersome because I have an actual mace dwarf about to become a mace lord and the artifact hammer I've had since the first hour of game play is unreachable. Any thoughts? I could probably use dwarf companion but that feels like cheating, even if it is a bug. I saved/reloaded and that did not fix the issue either (stupid windows ingraining that)

http://mkv25.net/dfma/movie-1069-slinkyfestsbug  <-- Movie of bug in action

[Footkerchief]

Sounds like this one:

# 000763 □ [dwarf mode][jobs][equipment]    (Report) if a soldier holding an artifact is told to pick up another weapon, they do, but they don't drop the artifact

Your case is interesting though, with the cancellation loop.  Maybe it has something to do with ranged weapons, or the two-handedness of crossbows or something.