when its your time, time is up. don't live paranoid but do live responsibly. we were all told growing up learning to drive, that you have to drive for the other people too. just wear orange, hunt with a partner, make noise etc. and yes i do know personally some sneak hunters that a sign "No Trespassing" means "There must be something to find " and "Posted" means oh heck yea we gonna hunt! and that's gun and bow hunters and metal detectorists.
Basically the human race is the top of the food chain so to speak. but human. they do things they know they should not. as a retired cop i worked quite a lot of stray bullet strikes in houses, to cars, business roofs in the heart of town that a projectile fired up in the air like the mideast hooligans do, what goes up comes down somewhere....
i have encountered trespassers, irresponsible hunters poaching, metal detectorist on lands with no permission. seen a lot.
a responsible hunter like Gaspipe is no threat... but a poacher is. but even accidents happen. i do remember years back a detectorist in the Carolinas on this forum, hunting on a permission, was shot by a kid poaching turkeys without permission. the overshot killed the bird but went thru the bushes hitting the Mder. the kid grabbed the turkey and ran off, leaving the md'er horribly wounded. . fortunately he struggled to his vehicle and made it to a hospital with a chest and lungs full of turkey shot. i read several years later a kid confessed. God was not ready for the Md'er to die.
so this answer is of both sides. responsible hunters and responsible Md"ers doing what they are supposed to is not a danger or a crime. its the others that are both.
i do say there is safety in numbers. i have personally helped carry a friend from a woods river hunt that got into breathing distress, not knowing he had underlying issues that were life threatening. he sold his detector, it was that bad.. exertion brought it to the surface. hunt with a friend when isolated.