Heyo. For anyone else having this issue and finding this thread. After messing around in the .lua files with the projectile speed/range devation and stuff I realized that the issue with the "Realistic Weapons" and the sniper turret isn't that, but actually the fact that the sniper has 36 range and the rifle ammo used by ks2se is 25. So bullets would be wasted trying to shoot far away objects that they couldn't reach.
If you want an easy fix, it's just a simple value edit. Disclaimer: I'm not a modder and this would probably break every time you update ks2se:
Open the file handling this:
C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Roaming\Factorio\mods\Krastorio2-spaced-out_1.4.11.zip\Krastorio2-spaced-out-1.4.11\prototypes\updates\base\weapons-realistic.lua
Ctrl + F -> look for rifle_range = 25 and change that to 36
Apologies if this isn't the place to post this !