Hi Cyd,
Im in the same boat as you ATM, applied early august and yet to hear anything and no luck on a reply for the enquiry I made a couple of weeks ago. Now as luck would have it BCH firearms are attending the British Shooting show so I'm going to have a chat with them then to see if I can get an actual idea for wait times. I will update with the results after the show. Hopefully we've not got much more of a wait now.