technique to sealing a oil pan on a 360?

by feel..

if you do the right stuff route and no gasket/seals, you want to place a nice even bead along the block rail & front and rear cap/cover, make sure you get it in the rear cap seal recess.
I would then put just a finger wiped skin on the pan rails all the way around etc..

then set the pan on so that you have to adjust it as lil as possible to get the bolts in [studs are nice for this] and just very lightly snug them down evenly keeping abot a gasket thickness between pan and rail, then after it drys snug it just a lil more.

thats how i've done it.
some people just glue it and screw it then when it's dry, run it.