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[krenshala]

I guess this means my limiting my hunters to a maximum of 30 bolts helps them run out sooner.

[Eric Blank]

Maybe if they're using stacks of 5 bone bolts and are skilled with good agility (thus reloading faster and ready to perform another action), but metal bolts come in stacks of 25-30, a full quiver, so you may end up with just one hunter who has all of the bolts set aside for all the hunters in the fort, thus being the only hunter out there. It'd minimize losses as far as dwarves are concerned... I would suggest training them as part of the military initially to provide useful skills like dodging and initial crossbow skill, then designating them as hunters as makeshift, but unfortunately disposable, patrols, with a few bone bolts to waste. They are bugged in the sense that they will use a different crossbow for hunting than what they are assigned for combat, so they'll immediately drop their hunting crossbow if drafted and charge the goblins unarmed. Had that sort of thing happen far too many times. I think they always wear their armor though, so they'll have some protection.

If the bolts are bone or wood only, then the hunter might run out of ammo before the goblins are on top of him, and if he has decent agility and doesn't do something stupid like running behind a ridge, deciding the goblin isn't chasing him anymore, then run back over the ridge to wander back to the site of the engagement before going home and find the goblin standing at the bottom of the hill and get slaughtered, then it could be moderately effective and you may not lose too many dwarves.

[Squirrelloid]

Ahem, yes, I meant bolts.

Well, after like 2 months of standing around with valid targets present, he finally decided to actually go hunt.  And promptly got himself killed chasing a Giant Jaguar (because, you know, the nice tasty gazelle that had been on the map *forever* wouldve been too easy or something).

[ledgekindred]

I just had a very similar problem.

Turns out my newly-assigned hunters picked up bows instead of crossbows for some reason.  And I have no arrows, so they stood around doing nothing.

I forbade the bows and now they are standing around holding the forbidden bows and not picking up crossbows at all. 

After turning off hunting, waiting for them to store the bows back in the weapon stockpile, then reassigning hunting, they appear to be off to collect crossbows.  Either that or they will pick up the same bow they had before and I will have to introduce them to the special magma bath...

[ledgekindred]

Well, they picked up their crossbows after I turned hunting back on, but only one is hunting.  The other is stuck permanently on "No Job" while both of them having crossbows and quivers.

[Loud Whispers]

Alternatively you could just have all of your dwarves hunt with spears