Back in the early '60s, Al Georg , Pioneering Handgun Hunting put scopes on everything includng probably original 58 remingtons. There were no long eye relief pistol scopes then and he just went ahead and used rifle scopes living with the small field of view he got with the gun extended.
He mentioned some excitement when he shot a black bear with this rig and had to step around the smoke cloud to see if his hit was effective.