Love my ED50. I had a miss-hap and sent it in. Got a letter back from Nikon saying for $10 and $12.50 shipping they would fix it. I told them to go ahead and when I got it back it was a brand new scope. Not fixed, but brand new. New serial number and everything. I know that Vortex may have a more forgiving warranty, but $30 for a new one round trip aint bad either. Nothing out there is that compact for that good of glass as far as I can tell.
I bet that 30x wide angle would be a little much. I am thinking about the 20x wide angle for the same reason. It would take me 5 minutes to find the deer on the hillside after I had located it with my binos. I have to zoom back to 13 then back in, but maybe it's just me.
"That's a special feeling, Lloyd"