SKS's...
CBR Gator--The price on SKS's seems to be going up fairly rapidly--though I hope you don't plan to send your kid to college on the profits from one--ain't gonna happen--and $200 seems about a fair price for a "shooter" in today's market.
Gone are the days when every gun show had at least one vendor with a barrel of SKS's, your choice, 85 bucks.
I'd spend the extra $10 and get hand-select, not for the cleaning rod, which is steel and will just wear the bore some more (use a plastic-coated rod) but for the increase in quality.
The bore still won't be pristine, but the rifle should be better than minute-of-pie-plate at 100 yd.
There are a lot of after-market things you can do to an SKS to make it less inaccurate (notice I did NOT say, "make it accurate;" a target rifle it will never be) but since you're dealing with a Yugo, you have to play the BATFE's game of replacing a bunch of parts if you change anything at all. Do a search on SKS's on THR here, and the whole discussion on 922r, I think it's called, will come up. That's the BATFE's rule on only using just so many imported parts in a rebuild of certain C&R rifles, of which the Yugo SKS is one. It's a silly rule, IMHO, but to stay legal you have to play ball with 'em.
Tapco makes a parts kit for the Yugo that includes enough Made in USA parts to legalize anything else you might do to it. I got one; haven't done anything with it yet--some other member will surely chime in with their results on installing all those parts.
Many shooters just leave the Yugo unaltered, and live with such accuracy as the gun has. If your rifle won't fire semi-auto, the gas valve may be turned off (rotate it 1/4 turn) or it just may be worn and leaking (replace it as Armored Man suggested.) BATFE doesn't mind if you do that, BTW.