Jackrabbit knocked out?

This evening I shot a jackrabbit in the head with a .177 JSB Monster @ 40 yards. It went down instantly, no movement at all, and it was gushing blood from the head. (Not sure exactly where; the whole head was soaked in blood.) But then it acted like it was trying to get up, so I shot it again point blank. It immediately started doing the normal death convulsions.

Do you think it was just knocked out for a few seconds? Has this ever happened to you?
 
On west Texas jacks I am always pretty close , I like to use the lung heart shot with a 500 FPS 177cal P 17 pistol, They jump a few times but pretty well dead,
I always walk around with my Mutant or cricket and the jack is sitting in the bush right next to me, I just got to take them out with the pistol,
The few I have killed this year the ticks seem to be pretty heavy on them, Makes a huge difference if they run and stop or keep running ,
Mike

 
My younger brother and I have had it happen with a dove and wood duck. Opened the bucket stool from a dove shoot when we got home and had a dove fly off into the sunset out of it. Same thing with the duck out of a rear jacket flap. I also heard of a gentleman locally that had the trunk of his car beat to pieces by a whitetail doe that resurrected !
When I was 12 I shot a squirrel with my pump crosman. When I went to pick it up, it ran up my arm, over my shoulder and down my back, around my trunk and down my leg, then up an adjacent pine. Their little claws don't feel to good! Looked like I experienced a pentecostal revival.
 
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