Beaver Puke...
Don't knock the beaver puke. It combines the best of God designed wood fibres and human designed resins and polymers. This wonderful marriage of the holy and unholy put together by godless communists yields an elegant and durable material to grab your killstick with, and blow away the capitalist running dogs. Remember this is the simulated vomit of our national rodent, and we stand on guard for thee.
If the VZ was a prohib and AKs where non-restricted everyone would be drooling over that beaver re-gurg. So, love the redish-brown stuff, and love your VZ for what it is; one of the best and enduring designs of the cold war/post ww2 period. Period.