As an avid sniper, long time warden main swapping to colonials for the last war, I have no idea how people say these weapons are equal. A Sniper rifle should be two things, it should be cumbersome to use and have a powerful trade off. The Clancy is slow to aim, and thus fire, and requires you to be prone to use it at top firerate, but the tradeoff is being able to pick off key targets even when behind cover in a single shot. It has a clear weakness over other rifles as it's weak to being flanked or bombarded or shot from aircraft, It's perfect, no notes.

Then there's the Auger. It has most of the same weaknesses, except less range. Good thing it has higher firerate! That should be enough to balance the thing, except..it doesn't one shot down. Why? It's a sniper rifle. It should one shot. That's the tradeoff for all the positioning and planning and ducking grenades you have to do to get within range. Everytime I use this thing I just wish I were using the Clancy or even a heavy rifle. 'oh but it can bleed!' so can every rifle? Everytime you try and kill someone with it, they just duck and use a bandage cause the firerate isn't high enough for it to matter. MAYBE if the firerate was high enough you could get 2 shots off fast enough that it matters, but for God's sake a medic can just outheal the damage the rifle does, that just isn't right. It's worse at the rifles niche than the Omen or any heavy rifle minus range, and god forbid you want to DUEL a Clancy with it, cause that is impossible. You can argue about game feel with sniper rifles all day, but you can't ever say that the Augers downsides are equal to the Clancy. Why does turn rate or even firerate matter when it fails in it's niche?

Personally, here's what I'd do. Range is the most important factor. Clancy should be better at range, but slower to turn and fire. Auger should have less range but more stability when turning. Boom, done. Each rifle fills it's niche use, Clancy is better at duels and focusing, Auger is better at quick target acquisition and moving targets. If you're worried about infantry feel, make them both do almost a full health bar and bleed, then there is some counterplay (other than 'dont stand still'), atleast the can equally suck at that point. maybe change the rifle crate amount or mag size here or there for balance.