Larger 7X50 binoculars are ideal. Use your binoculars to scan the sky between the bowl stars of the dipper and the northwestern horizon directly below the bowl. It needs to be a dark sky site, too. You need to start observing right after dark. You'll need a clear night, and that's something that is tough to come by in the Southeast during July.
Summer nights can be hot and hazy with few stars visible, even from remote locations.
Its low altitude above the horizon will be another strike against a good view. The comet's relatively close proximity to Earth and our broadside view of its path will make the motion readily apparent night to night. That's about the same distance as Halley's Comet in 1986. That closest point to Earth comes on the night of July 22.