Crosshairs aren't moving when i turn the turret knobs?

Just bought a nikon scope and mounted it on my rifle. Aimed & looked at a picture about 25 yards through the barrel and then, i looked through the scope. Had the rifle mounted on a chair with pillows. I turned the turret knobs but nothing moved? Is this normal or do i have a defect scope? They do make the click sound and the zoom works just not the turret knobs?

First of all, at 25 yards you won't be able to notice any movement because thae target will look so large. It's normal for a scope to look as if it is not moving when it really is. Most scopes say 1/4" at 100 yards on it, so when looking at 100 yards one click will move the reticle 1/4", barely noticeable. Bore sight your rifle if you can, and go from there, remembering to look on the knobs for which directiong to rotate them for movement and you'll get it sighted in. If it's a.22lr, sight in at 50 yards.223: make it hit 1-2" high 100 yards, .243: Sight in at 100-200 yards.308: sighting in at 200 yards is good for most hunting trips… So on.

Shoot straight!
Kurt

Chuck, I gave you a pretty in-depth answer on your other question, maybe you should look at that one. You don't just mess with a scope to mess with it. The reticle/cross-hairs WON'T appear to move because you don't have it centered on a specific spot (sort of like indexing a CNC machine), and unless you have a gun vice you won't notice changes in the sight picture in relation to the reticle. There's a way to sight in a rifle with only a couple shots IF you have a gun vice;what you're doing currently is just creating an issue you'll need to fix at an actual shooting range or have the scope/rifle bore sighted with a collimator. The cross-hairs adjust incrementally from one indexed point (shot A) to where you want to hit (shot B);if you don't know were A is, moving to B is just an abstract 2nd position. So, hopefully you remember where your initial (factory) stops are at and you can sight in at a range soon.

"Had the rifle mounted on a chair with pillows" -- Each "click" will change the point of am 1/4" of an inch at 100 yards or 1/16th of an inch at 25 yards. Do you really think your setup is stable enough to tell a change of even after several clicks? I kinda doubt it. You need a real, stable gun rest to do what you are doing.

This is obviously an ID-10-Tango error. Send the scope back to Nikon with an apology.

They won't appear to move very much that is, 25 yds. Is very close.
I suggest having it bore sighted. Save time and ammo.
That may be the reason that when sighting in a scope you move point of impact to the cross hairs.