RE: Are we going about this all wrong?
I believe this very question was addressed by the Drurys in their video last year called Spot On. Basically what they said was in areas with vast areas of food sources (the Midwest) creating attractive bedding areas near those food source can help keep deer not only where you want them, but moving in a direction beneficial to you for hunting. The problem with this is that the amount of land they have accessible to them for doing this is in the 1000s of acres and not practical for the everyday hunter.
I think the idea has merit, but for the parcels I hunt I'll have to stick to the natural bedding areas and setting up to catch the deer coming and going from them.