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Usual advice is to wait until the first frost and then pick
Thing is, we don’t get a frost until something like December. By then, everything has been bare for many months. Same with medlars, they’re looooong gone by the time there’s a frost.
I did actually freeze my sloes this time. I don’t usually, but I wasn’t sure when I was going to get a chance to bottle up so I temporarily put them in the freezer for storage.
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Haven’t noticed many sloes here yet. Usual advice is to wait until the first frost and then pick, or if you can’t wait, simulate that by putting them in the freezer before they go in the mix. Then wait as long as you can. Flavour develops with time and we’ve got some from 2015ish that I’m looking forward to opening as fruit-in-bottle-aged sloe gin.