If you fear the thorn you are not skilled. Im not a really good pvp player but the thorn or tlw players are easy victims for my badjuju for middle or far distance or shotgun for near distance. But you are right the distance this handcanons are deadly like hawkmoon is not good for a balance while it is a handcanon for far distances and Automatic Riffles are only made for close and middle Range. But they will fix on next patch they say. You ever tried too shoot with an real Handcanon on a distance of 30 meters its a lot of more hard too hit than with an automatic riffle on 300meters.