You should be in control of the dog on or off the slip. If you aren't it isnt trained properly. Lamp lighting quarry-go,lamp off,back to you. Simple. If the dog doesnt do that then its not a lamp dog,its a point and shoot coursing dog thats not trained to the lamp properly.
so the minuite you flick your lamp on your dog is off after whats at the end of the beam even if you dont know whats at the end of it! i keep to the law my dogs are just for the bunnys i like to know what they are running when i say( slip lead) simple as that dont tell me your one of the jokers that can call is dog of