To a degree, I would consider it to be a more modern version of the Browning Hi power.
I've heard this said before. I don't see it. (A lot folks claim the CZ is an update of the Browning Design, and that doesn't seem to be what you're saying. I think you're talking about OTHER similarities.)
They are both very ergonomic handguns, but the CZ is a totally different design that just happens to look a little like a BHP. About the only thing thing they have in common is a vaguely similar appearance and the fact that they both use the Browning Short Recoil Locked Breech design. (The SRLB design is used by probably 95% of all semi-autos made since before WWII. )
What's really different about them? Almost everything from the hammer spring design to how the trigger works. The BHP doesn't have a trigger bar like the CZ; it has a sear lever which resides in the slide. (That is a very awkward design feature.) With the slide off, the trigger doesn't release the hammer.
I traded away my older T-series BHP last year; it was a nice gun with a great trigger (thanks to a little gunsmithing), when I went to the range, it stayed in the gun safe. It's gone now and I've still got three CZs, one of which is a CZ-85Combat; also have a semi-custom AT84s, and a Sphinx SDP. I preferred all three of them to the BHP -- which is probably why it stayed in the gun safe when I went to the range. And, of course, the CZ uses a magazine brake instead of a magazine safety. (A pox on the BHP mag safety! Removing it is easy and it greatly improves the trigger.)
I also had a 75B SA for a a couple of years; mine was avery well-gunsmithed 75B SA originally owned by Eric Larsen (of
www.hbeleatherworks.com), who had a local gunsmith somewhere out West do the work. He did an excellent job on the gun. (Even though the firing pin block wasn't removed, you could barely tell it was still there.) It was a great gun with a good trigger and very accurate. But I wanted something different.)
