Originally Posted by Nomercy448

You might also think about practicing in the backyard with "visual orientation". Tell them to take notice of the landscape, so if they can find a fence in the scope, then they can recognize where the scope is pointing, and where they need to go to find the animal.

So like you said about finding a can in the Y of a tree. If they can find the base of the tree, then follow it up, they can find the can.

Cowitnessing will be a lot faster, but it does help to be able track where you're pointing vs where the target is in the scope.