There are quite a few threads around speculating on this and all aspects of the DvG encounter. The Bible has no detail of the sling at all and the historians don't know either so everything is just speculation and can never be verified either way.

From what we know about David in his early (and later) years, he was also an excellent kinnor (usually translated "harp") player. On http://cdbaby.com/cd/mlevy ("King David's lyre, echoes from ancient Israel"), I found this:

In Biblical times, the Kinnor was usually made of cypress wood, or in very precious instruments, of sandalwood (I Kings 10: 12; described as "almug"). According to the ancient writings of the Jewish historian Josephus Flavius, who actually witnessed the Kinnor being played by the Levites in the Temple of Jerusalem, the Kinnor had ten strings, made of sheep gut.

Sheep gut strings fit well into the image of the young shepherd who uses materials from his (father's) livestock for his pastime - playing music and slinging. So, for his sling, wool would be a good candidate (I'm not a specialist, but I think that sheep's sinews are too short to be used as sling cords). I suppose either a woven pouch or, less probable, one out of goatskin. Sheepskin to me seems too soft and too thin to be effectively used for a sling pouch.

Not in my version of the bible. Maybe there are informations in some old ancient text, but I doubt it.

I imagine that it would be of woven wool.

where wool is available leather or rawhide would be as well a plausible material.

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plant fibres? a shepherd is not a stone-age man, he is a participant in an economy, and has wealth.
if he is so inclined, and bored, and surrounded by sheep which leave tufts and strands of wool on every branch and twig, he would use wool to make a sling. either that or leather from the skin of a dead one.

maybe he would just buy a ready-made sling, or trade some small amount of ewe's milk, meat, or wool for one.   

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it still is.....

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oh it didn't post

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