Terrific comparison, Mr. Funk!
I happen to own two Hi Powers, and one CZ 75 B. I agree with pretty much all of your observations, might like to add a few of my own.
One of my Hi Powers is an early MKIII (with the forged frame) purchased new back in the early 1990s. That pistol originally had the adjustable target sights, but I eventually swapped them out for the basic MKIII fixed sights when I decided to CCW it. It still has the magazine disconnect, and as was posted by a earlier respondent to this thread, the grittiness due to the mag disconnect is only felt during the take up, but it does have a very bad reset. I was always a little nervous about carrying it, though, because of the fear of marring the original polished blued finish, and decided to purchase my CZ 75 B for CCW instead.
My CZ 75 B is very accurate, and has a terrific trigger pull in both single-action and double-action. I carry mine in double-action for the first shot, safety off (of course), manually decocked to the half-cock notch. Your CZ 75 BD, by the way, decocks to the same half-cock notch when you operate the decocker, so I can't see where my practice is unsafe in and of itself. (In fact, in order to incorporate the decocking mechanism on the BD, half of the half-cock notch is milled away, so it could be argued that the plain old B may even be safer.) I have experimented with every decocking technique as appear on the 'net, and feel safest by simply hooking my strong-hand thumb over the top of the hammer and pulling it back slightly, pulling the trigger, easing the hammer down slightly, then releasing the trigger as the hammer starts down. This lets the half-cock notch catch the hammer as well as letting the firing pin safety get into position to catch the firing pin in the unlikely event of a slip. I find that this pistol carries every bit as comfortably as the Hi Power.
In any event, missing my Hi Power for CCW, I picked up my second Hi Power, which is actually an FEG clone surplussed by the Israeli police. It looks like it was drug from one end of the Sinai to the other behind a Merkava, but is all matching numbers and has an excellent trigger. The magazine disconnect was either never installed, or it was removed by the cop to whom it was issued. Magazines drop free. And even though it has the old style humped feed ramp it feeds my favorite JHP ammo, the Federal Classic 9BP, just fine. And for some reason that I can't pin down it feels even better in the hand than my MKIII. And if it gets stolen or ends up in some police department's evidence locker....well, it can't hardly come back looking any worse.
But in the end, which one is on my hip right now? It's the CZ 75 B.
