I use a Princeton TEC head lamp with red lens at least once during my trip to or from the stand. It takes four AA batteries that last a week or two of hunting, walking to and from stand that is. I few of my friends switched to LED and that seems to be the way to go. At least when talking about battery life. As for the lens color I read an article that deer had a hard time seeing red and blue was a good color for tracking, blood really shines under the blue light.

Regarding getting drawn on... wow! I'm sure that got the old ticker pumping! Glad to see you were able to walk away from that situation! I'll always keep a light on after reading that story!