Slung a few dead Black Bears in my time, normally forest fires and the bear has to be shot due to being a nuisance. Rope em up, attach to longline, altitude and release load....simples. Mind you about twenty years ago on a fire in Alberta was dispatched to do a bear disposal. Called it in on FM to dispatch was doing the sky diving Yogi. Young medic monitoring freqs heard the call and kicked off big time....she didn't realise it had already had a dose of .303, thought we were punching live bears off....
Lost a couple of loads in over 10,000hrs longline. First one a survey mag bird due to manual release incorrectly rigged....did a nose dive into a snow drift and was undamaged. Second one due a faulty choker was a 2300lb drill engine. Engine was scrapped it released between set ups in the Belcher Islands, bouncing bomb it was.....cant imagine the carnage if it had let go overhead the rig......
