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[Wicked]

How do I find out what is in my quivers?
How do I empty one if it has a mixture of bolts and/or arrows in it? (If I dump a quiver does that empty it or get rid of it?)
How do I fill quivers with bolts or arrows?
Can I set certain ammo for training? If so, how? If not, what IS training ammo?

Most of my ammo stockpile seems to be taken up with one bolt per tile at the moment. How do I prevent this?

[0cu]

How do I find out what is in my quivers?
How do I empty one if it has a mixture of bolts and/or arrows in it? (If I dump a quiver does that empty it or get rid of it?)
How do I fill quivers with bolts or arrows?
Can I set certain ammo for training? If so, how? If not, what IS training ammo?

Most of my ammo stockpile seems to be taken up with one bolt per tile at the moment. How do I prevent this?

For quivers laying around, press k, scroll over the quiver, then enter. If a dwarf has equipped one, press v, scroll to the dwarf, press i, select the quiver, enter.
I don't think you can, dwarves will change the ammunition themselves as needed.
You can't manually. Go to the military screen with m, press f, select ammo for training and combat for the squads. For squads of 10 men, set the amount to 250 (25 is max for a quiver).
See above. I recommend wooden bolts for training and everything else for combat. Bone is the best for combat IMO, because it's cheap and does enough damage.

[AutomataKittay]

Don't assign bows to dwarves if you can help it, or let them pick ranged weapon with bows lying around, that's most of my arrows problem. Can assign them to only use bolts through military ammuntion screen. Dumping arrows are better option.

Dwarves will fills it on their own, the ammuntion number is squad-wide and divided between members, not inviduals.

Haven't tried to set training/combat, it used to be pretty buggy, but supposedly you can set a specific kind of ammo to be training and another for combat.

To deal with one bolt per tile, use bins to compact them all up.

[Garath]

I've had quivers with 40 bolts in them, usually a mix of metal and bone bolts, so 250 for a 10 man squad can leave some without bolts

[Bandreus]

Assigning more than 250 bolts (for a 10 dorfs squad) is not going to cause any major issue really. Worst case scenario, they might reserve more bolts than they actually need to.

Having plenty of bolts at the ready is very suggested regardless. So things should keep going smoothly enough unless you set that to something unreasonable like 1000+ bolts per squad