Rhys Plum investigates the phenomenal rise of Tweedl, raffling fabulous prizes for shooters

Sam Hargreaves grew up helping out on his father’s shoot

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here’s no doubt that shooting can often be regarded as a sport for the wealthy, and whilst this is true in some regards, I believe that people can partake in the sport on a budget.Scrolling through social media just the other day, I read a post by clay pigeon coach Ben Husthwaite, whose sponsorship squad had kindly teamed up to buy 14-year-old colt Ben, his first gun, a brand new Webley and Scott that he had been saving up for all year.

This not only made me commend Ben and his team for their great work in helping out a fellow young shot, but also made me wonder if we could be doing more to introduce more people into the sport, and keeping them in the sport, without breaking the bank.

Whilst on the same trip through the world of Instagram, I came across the latest social media sensation in the shooting world, called Tweedl. In short, Tweedl host competitions, raffling off awesome prizes to fieldsports & motosports fanatics. The ethos of the company really attracted me to find out more, so I did just that over a telephone call with Tweedl codirectors Sam and Dan.