I lock mine. The land that I hunt on was tied up in a legal battle for the past 7 years because of squatters. I'm sure they are very upset they lost the property to hunt on, but I know they lease the property next door and there is no fence put up yet. So to keep my 2 office chairs and heater in place, I put a lock on it. Everybody on the main portion of the lease locks theirs because of the rancher, who isn;t the owner, shooting deer and trashing the blinds

DeeAM! And folks tell ME I'm a lock nut. (Very impressive. 'Gives me something to aspire to.)

I don't lock mine so they don't get torn apart and I also post my policy of no weapons allowed so nobody can hunt from my blinds.

I figure my lock just keeps the honest man honest. From what I've seen on deer blind locks. A good crowbar could get you into any blind.

The nice thing about digital key pads is we don't need lots of keys floating around that get lost or misplaced. We can also give people their own individual combination code. There is one down side....dead battery can be a problem.

^^ This. For me the lock is just a reminder to others that the stuff is not just sitting around, "free" for someone else to "borrow" or break. For my blind, it wouldn't even take a good crowbar, just a strong screwdriver would do the trick.

If you have to lock your blind I don't believe I would want to hunt there.

I do, I found a complete stranger in my blind years ago. We spend a lot of money and time so why not protect your investment?

Why? Unless you have built an elevated fortress, I haven't found a blind yet that a 5 dollar screwdriver couldn't access and why have someone tear it up trying. Like many have said, if your hunting with guys where locking your blind is required, then your not having a very good time.

I don't lock anything on the lease. Just stay outta my whiskey.

We don't lock ours, don't need more stuff broken than we already have. Couldn't even go deer hunting last weekend without having to replace another 100' of 5 strand barbed wire fence that a Toyota took out, (probably illegals running, again). We don't have assigned blinds, just discuss who is sitting where and when before hand. If someone has an issue they can work it out themselves like adults.

I would like to hear how the ending to that went down

A lock isn't necessarily to keep out fellow leasers. It does deter some like ranch hands, the ranch owner, the neighbors kids, some poachers, leasers kids that seems to think they can do what they want when no one else is around.
Sure a big screw driver can get you into most of them, but at least I will know someone was there. And I can get into almost any car or house with a rock (0$ investment). But people still seem to lock the door.

We do on smaller properties we hunt. There have been poachers that climbed the fence and sat in the blinds before. If you are going to poach where I hunt, you aren't going to do it with ease and in comfort. Large properties never had a problem with poachers that we have seen so we don't lock them.